EuroMov, Montpellier University, 34090 Montpellier, France; NaturalPad, SAS, 34090 Montpellier, France.
Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Ann Phys Rehabil Med. 2018 Nov;61(6):395-400. doi: 10.1016/j.rehab.2018.04.001. Epub 2018 Apr 28.
Perceptual and sensorimotor timing skills can be thoroughly assessed with the Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities (BAASTA). The battery has been used for testing rhythmic skills in healthy adults and patient populations (e.g., with Parkinson disease), showing sensitivity to timing and rhythm deficits. Here we assessed the test-retest reliability of the BAASTA in 20 healthy adults. Participants were tested twice with the BAASTA, implemented on a tablet interface, with a 2-week interval. They completed 4 perceptual tasks, namely, duration discrimination, anisochrony detection with tones and music, and the Beat Alignment Test (BAT). Moreover, they completed motor tasks via finger tapping, including unpaced and paced tapping with tones and music, synchronization-continuation, and adaptive tapping to a sequence with a tempo change. Despite high variability among individuals, the results showed good test-retest reliability in most tasks. A slight but significant improvement from test to retest was found in tapping with music, which may reflect a learning effect. In general, the BAASTA was found a reliable tool for evaluating timing and rhythm skills.
感知和运动计时技能可以通过听觉运动和计时能力评估电池（Battery for the Assessment of Auditory Sensorimotor and Timing Abilities，BAASTA）进行全面评估。该电池已用于测试健康成年人和患者群体（例如帕金森病患者）的节奏感，显示出对时间和节奏缺陷的敏感性。在这里，我们评估了 20 名健康成年人在 BAASTA 上的测试-重测信度。参与者在平板电脑界面上两次接受 BAASTA 测试，间隔为 2 周。他们完成了 4 项感知任务，即时长辨别、音调和音乐的非同期检测，以及节拍对齐测试（Beat Alignment Test，BAT）。此外，他们通过手指敲击完成了运动任务，包括用音调和音乐进行无节奏和有节奏的敲击、同步延续和自适应敲击以适应节奏变化的序列。尽管个体之间存在很大的差异，但结果表明大多数任务的测试-重测信度良好。在敲击音乐方面发现了从测试到重测的轻微但显著的改善，这可能反映了学习效应。总的来说，BAASTA 被认为是评估时间和节奏技能的可靠工具。
