Sloboda J A
Perception. 1978;7(3):323-31. doi: 10.1068/p070323.
Musicians and nonmusicians were required to make written reports of briefly presented displays of pitch symbols. Whilst musicians were not superior to nonmusicians at identifying individual notes they were superior at retaining information about the contour of note sequences. In addition, manipulation of task difficulty by requiring whole or partial report of the displays had a significant effect on performance only when global, rather than specific, response measures were taken. The results are in accordance with the theory that global analysis precedes detailed analysis in perceptual processing.
音乐家和非音乐家被要求就简短呈现的音高符号展示撰写书面报告。虽然在识别单个音符方面音乐家并不比非音乐家更出色，但在保留音符序列轮廓的信息方面他们更胜一筹。此外，通过要求对展示进行整体或部分报告来操纵任务难度，只有在采用整体而非特定的反应测量时才会对表现产生显著影响。这些结果与感知处理中整体分析先于详细分析的理论一致。
