Active Drumming Experience Increases Infants' Sensitivity to Audiovisual Synchrony during Observed Drumming Actions

In the current study, we examined the role of active experience on sensitivity to multisensory synchrony in six-month-old infants in a musical context. In the first of two experiments, we trained infants to produce a novel multimodal effect (i.e., a drum beat) and assessed the effects of this traini...

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Published in:PloS one 2015-06, Vol.10 (6), p.e0130960-e0130960
Main Authors: Gerson, Sarah A, Schiavio, Andrea, Timmers, Renee, Hunnius, Sabine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation
Auditory perception
Auditory Perception - physiology
Behavior
Brain research
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Drum
Drumming
Electroencephalography
Female
Humans
Infant
Infants
Male
Music
Neurophysiology
Perception
Photic Stimulation
Professional basketball
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Sensitivity
Sensory integration
Sound
Tonality
Training
Visual perception
Visual Perception - physiology
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Summary:In the current study, we examined the role of active experience on sensitivity to multisensory synchrony in six-month-old infants in a musical context. In the first of two experiments, we trained infants to produce a novel multimodal effect (i.e., a drum beat) and assessed the effects of this training, relative to no training, on their later perception of the synchrony between audio and visual presentation of the drumming action. In a second experiment, we then contrasted this active experience with the observation of drumming in order to test whether observation of the audiovisual effect was as effective for sensitivity to multimodal synchrony as active experience. Our results indicated that active experience provided a unique benefit above and beyond observational experience, providing insights on the embodied roots of (early) music perception and cognition.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0130960