TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancement of loudness discrimination acuity for self-generated sound is independent of musical experience
AU - Endo, Nozomi
AU - Ito, Takayuki
AU - Watanabe, Katsumi
AU - Nakazawa, Kimitaka
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was jointly supported by research grants from JSPS KAKENHI (20J14743) and Tateishi Science and Technology Promotion Foundation Grant 2197001 awarded to N.E.; the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant R01-DC017439 awarded to T.I.; JSPS KAKENHI (17H00753 and 17H06344 to K.W.; 18H04082 to K.N.); JST Moonshot R&D (JPMJMS2012) to K.W. and K.N. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Endo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Musicians tend to have better auditory and motor performance than non-musicians because of their extensive musical experience. In a previous study, we established that loudness discrimination acuity is enhanced when sound is produced by a precise force generation task. In this study, we compared the enhancement effect between experienced pianists and nonmusicians. Without the force generation task, loudness discrimination acuity was better in pianists than non-musicians in the condition. However, the force generation task enhanced loudness discrimination acuity similarly in both pianists and non-musicians. The reaction time was also reduced with the force control task, but only in the non-musician group. The results suggest that the enhancement of loudness discrimination acuity with the precise force generation task is independent of musical experience and is, therefore, a fundamental function in auditory-motor interaction.
AB - Musicians tend to have better auditory and motor performance than non-musicians because of their extensive musical experience. In a previous study, we established that loudness discrimination acuity is enhanced when sound is produced by a precise force generation task. In this study, we compared the enhancement effect between experienced pianists and nonmusicians. Without the force generation task, loudness discrimination acuity was better in pianists than non-musicians in the condition. However, the force generation task enhanced loudness discrimination acuity similarly in both pianists and non-musicians. The reaction time was also reduced with the force control task, but only in the non-musician group. The results suggest that the enhancement of loudness discrimination acuity with the precise force generation task is independent of musical experience and is, therefore, a fundamental function in auditory-motor interaction.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0260859
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0260859
M3 - Article
C2 - 34874970
AN - SCOPUS:85120868128
VL - 16
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 12 December
M1 - e0260859
ER -