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Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality

BACKGROUND: Synchronous finger tapping to external sensory stimuli is more stable for audiovisual combined stimuli than sole auditory or visual stimuli. In addition, piano players are superior in synchronous tapping and manipulating the ring and little fingers as compared to inexperienced individual...

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Autores principales: Ito, Kanami, Watanabe, Tatsunori, Horinouchi, Takayuki, Matsumoto, Takuya, Yunoki, Keisuke, Ishida, Haruki, Kirimoto, Hikari
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337272
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-023-00327-2
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author Ito, Kanami
Watanabe, Tatsunori
Horinouchi, Takayuki
Matsumoto, Takuya
Yunoki, Keisuke
Ishida, Haruki
Kirimoto, Hikari
author_facet Ito, Kanami
Watanabe, Tatsunori
Horinouchi, Takayuki
Matsumoto, Takuya
Yunoki, Keisuke
Ishida, Haruki
Kirimoto, Hikari
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description BACKGROUND: Synchronous finger tapping to external sensory stimuli is more stable for audiovisual combined stimuli than sole auditory or visual stimuli. In addition, piano players are superior in synchronous tapping and manipulating the ring and little fingers as compared to inexperienced individuals. However, it is currently unknown whether the ability to synchronize to external sensory stimuli with the ring finger is at the level of the index finger in piano players. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of piano experience on synchronization stability between the index and ring fingers using auditory, visual, and audiovisual combined stimuli. METHODS: Thirteen piano players and thirteen novices participated in this study. They were instructed to tap with their index or ring finger synchronously to auditory, visual, and audiovisual combined stimuli. The stimuli were presented from an electronic metronome at 1 Hz, and the tapping was performed 30 times in each condition. We analyzed standard deviation of intervals between the stimulus onset and the tap onset as synchronization stability. RESULTS: Synchronization stability for visual stimuli was lower during ring than index finger tapping in novices; however, this decline was absent in piano players. Also, piano players showed the higher synchronization stability for audiovisual combined stimuli than sole visual and auditory stimuli when tapping with the index finger. On the other hand, in novices, synchronization stability was higher for audiovisual combined stimuli than only visual stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that improvements of both sensorimotor processing and finger motor control by piano practice would contribute to superior synchronization stability.
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spelling pubmed-102783382023-06-20 Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality Ito, Kanami Watanabe, Tatsunori Horinouchi, Takayuki Matsumoto, Takuya Yunoki, Keisuke Ishida, Haruki Kirimoto, Hikari J Physiol Anthropol Original Article BACKGROUND: Synchronous finger tapping to external sensory stimuli is more stable for audiovisual combined stimuli than sole auditory or visual stimuli. In addition, piano players are superior in synchronous tapping and manipulating the ring and little fingers as compared to inexperienced individuals. However, it is currently unknown whether the ability to synchronize to external sensory stimuli with the ring finger is at the level of the index finger in piano players. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of piano experience on synchronization stability between the index and ring fingers using auditory, visual, and audiovisual combined stimuli. METHODS: Thirteen piano players and thirteen novices participated in this study. They were instructed to tap with their index or ring finger synchronously to auditory, visual, and audiovisual combined stimuli. The stimuli were presented from an electronic metronome at 1 Hz, and the tapping was performed 30 times in each condition. We analyzed standard deviation of intervals between the stimulus onset and the tap onset as synchronization stability. RESULTS: Synchronization stability for visual stimuli was lower during ring than index finger tapping in novices; however, this decline was absent in piano players. Also, piano players showed the higher synchronization stability for audiovisual combined stimuli than sole visual and auditory stimuli when tapping with the index finger. On the other hand, in novices, synchronization stability was higher for audiovisual combined stimuli than only visual stimuli. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that improvements of both sensorimotor processing and finger motor control by piano practice would contribute to superior synchronization stability. BioMed Central 2023-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10278338/ /pubmed/37337272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-023-00327-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ito, Kanami
Watanabe, Tatsunori
Horinouchi, Takayuki
Matsumoto, Takuya
Yunoki, Keisuke
Ishida, Haruki
Kirimoto, Hikari
Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title_full Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title_fullStr Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title_full_unstemmed Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title_short Higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
title_sort higher synchronization stability with piano experience: relationship with finger and presentation modality
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337272
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-023-00327-2
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