Conde Virginia, Altenmüller Eckart, Villringer Arno, Ragert Patrick
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2012 May 16;3:146. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00146. eCollection 2012.
An efficient and fast auditory-motor network is a basic resource for trained musicians due to the importance of motor anticipation of sound production in musical performance. When playing an instrument, motor performance always goes along with the production of sounds and the integration between both modalities plays an essential role in the course of musical training. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of task-irrelevant auditory feedback during motor performance in musicians using a serial reaction time task (SRTT). Our hypothesis was that musicians, due to their extensive auditory-motor practice routine during musical training, have superior performance and learning capabilities when receiving auditory feedback during SRTT relative to musicians performing the SRTT without any auditory feedback. Behaviorally, we found that auditory feedback reinforced SRTT performance of the right hand (referring to absolute response speed) while learning capabilities remained unchanged. This finding highlights a potential important role for task-irrelevant auditory feedback in motor performance in musicians, a finding that might provide further insight into auditory-motor integration independent of the trained musical context.
由于在音乐表演中声音产生的运动预期非常重要，一个高效快速的听觉-运动网络是训练有素的音乐家的基本资源。演奏乐器时，运动表现总是与声音的产生相伴，并且这两种模态之间的整合在音乐训练过程中起着至关重要的作用。本研究的目的是使用序列反应时任务（SRTT）来调查在音乐家的运动表现过程中与任务无关的听觉反馈的作用。我们的假设是，由于音乐家在音乐训练期间有广泛的听觉-运动练习常规，相对于在没有任何听觉反馈的情况下执行SRTT的音乐家，在SRTT期间接收听觉反馈时，他们具有更优的表现和学习能力。在行为方面，我们发现听觉反馈增强了右手的SRTT表现（指绝对反应速度），而学习能力保持不变。这一发现突出了与任务无关的听觉反馈在音乐家运动表现中的潜在重要作用，这一发现可能为独立于训练音乐背景的听觉-运动整合提供进一步的见解。
