Hassler M
University of Tübingen, Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Germany.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 1992;17(1):55-70. doi: 10.1016/0306-4530(92)90076-j.
Creative musical behavior, musical intelligence, and spatial ability were investigated in relation to salivary testosterone (T). In a cross-sectional study with 117 adults and in an 8-yr longitudinal study with 120 adolescents, composers, instrumentalists, and nonmusicians of both sexes were compared by analyses of variance. Results indicate that an optimal T range may exist for the expression of creative musical behavior. This range may be at the bottom of normal male T range and at the top of normal female T range. In addition, musicians were found to attain significantly higher spatial test scores than nonmusicians, both, in an 8-yr-period of adolescent development and in adulthood.
研究了创造性音乐行为、音乐智力和空间能力与唾液睾酮（T）之间的关系。在一项针对117名成年人的横断面研究和一项针对120名青少年的为期8年的纵向研究中，通过方差分析对男女作曲家、乐器演奏家和非音乐家进行了比较。结果表明，创造性音乐行为的表达可能存在一个最佳的T范围。这个范围可能在正常男性T范围的底部和正常女性T范围的顶部。此外，发现在青少年发育的8年期间和成年期，音乐家在空间测试中的得分显著高于非音乐家。
