Multisensory integration of drumming actions: musical expertise affects perceived audiovisual asynchrony

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Multisensory integration of drumming actions: musical expertise affects perceived audiovisual asynchrony

Karin Petrini Frank E. Pollick Federico Avanzini Carl Haakon Waadeland Aina Puce Davide Rocchesso Sofia Dahl

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Male sound synthesis Signal Detection Psychological Sound Spectrography Time Factors Musical expertise Motion Perception Normal Distribution Video Recording Drumming action audiovisual perception Psychophysics media_common Settore INF/01 - Informatica General Neuroscience interactive simulation Auditory Perception Linear Model Educational Status Synchrony perception audiovisual perception; interactive simulation; sound synthesis Psychology Human Cognitive psychology Adult Auditory perception Speech perception Time Factor media_common.quotation_subject Audiovisual integration Stimulus (physiology)Judgment Young Adult Perception Psychophysics Humans Motion perception Audiovisual congruency Drumming actions Analysis of Variance Communication business.industry Multisensory integration Synchrony perception; Audiovisual integration; Audiovisual congruency; Drumming actions; Musical expertise Educational Statu Acoustic Stimulation Psychophysic Linear Models business Music Photic Stimulation Biological motion

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We investigated the effect of musical expertise on sensitivity to asynchrony for drumming point-light displays, which varied in their physical characteristics (Experiment 1) or in their degree of audiovisual congruency (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, 21 repetitions of three tempos x three accents x nine audiovisual delays were presented to four jazz drummers and four novices. In Experiment 2, ten repetitions of two audiovisual incongruency conditions x nine audiovisual delays were presented to 13 drummers and 13 novices. Participants gave forced-choice judgments of audiovisual synchrony. The results of Experiment 1 show an enhancement in experts' ability to detect asynchrony, especially for slower drumming tempos. In Experiment 2 an increase in sensitivity to asynchrony was found for incongruent stimuli; this increase, however, is attributable only to the novice group. Altogether the results indicated that through musical practice we learn to ignore variations in stimulus characteristics that otherwise would affect our multisensory integration processes.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2009-01-01	Experimental Brain Research

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-1817-2