Spiech Connor, Endestad Tor, Laeng Bruno, Danielsen Anne, Haghish E F
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 30;14:1034561. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1034561. eCollection 2023.
The ability to perceive the beat in music is crucial for both music listeners and players with expert musicians being notably skilled at noticing fine deviations in the beat. However, it is unclear whether this beat perception ability is enhanced in trained musicians who continue to practice relative to musicians who no longer play. Thus, we investigated this by comparing active musicians', inactive musicians', and nonmusicians' beat alignment ability scores on the Computerized Adaptive Beat Alignment Test (CA-BAT). 97 adults with diverse musical experience participated in the study, reporting their years of formal musical training, number of instruments played, hours of weekly music playing, and hours of weekly music listening, in addition to their demographic information. While initial tests between groups indicated active musicians outperformed inactive musicians and nonmusicians on the CA-BAT, a generalized linear regression analysis showed that there was no significant difference once differences in musical training had been accounted for. To ensure that our results were not impacted by multicollinearity between music-related variables, nonparametric and nonlinear machine learning regressions were employed and confirmed that years of formal musical training was the only significant predictor of beat alignment ability. These results suggest that expertly perceiving fine differences in the beat is not a use-dependent ability that degrades without regular maintenance through practice or musical engagement. Instead, better beat alignment appears to be associated with more musical training regardless of continued use.
感知音乐节拍的能力对音乐听众和演奏者都至关重要，专业音乐家尤其擅长察觉节拍中的细微偏差。然而，相对于不再演奏的音乐家，持续练习的训练有素的音乐家的这种节拍感知能力是否会增强尚不清楚。因此，我们通过比较活跃音乐家、不活跃音乐家和非音乐家在计算机自适应节拍对齐测试（CA-BAT）中的节拍对齐能力得分来对此进行研究。97名具有不同音乐经历的成年人参与了该研究，他们除了提供人口统计学信息外，还报告了自己接受正规音乐训练的年限、演奏的乐器数量、每周演奏音乐的时长以及每周聆听音乐的时长。虽然组间的初步测试表明活跃音乐家在CA-BAT上的表现优于不活跃音乐家和非音乐家，但广义线性回归分析表明，一旦考虑到音乐训练的差异，就没有显著差异。为确保我们的结果不受音乐相关变量之间多重共线性的影响，我们采用了非参数和非线性机器学习回归，结果证实正规音乐训练的年限是节拍对齐能力的唯一显著预测因素。这些结果表明，专业地感知节拍中的细微差异并非一种依赖使用的能力，不会因缺乏通过练习或音乐活动进行的定期维持而退化。相反，无论是否持续使用，更好的节拍对齐似乎与更多的音乐训练有关。
