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Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills
Rhythms, or patterns in time, play a vital role in both speech and music. Proficiency in a number of rhythm skills has been linked to language ability, suggesting that certain rhythmic processes in music and language rely on overlapping resources. However, a lack of understanding about how rhythm sk...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136645 |
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description | Rhythms, or patterns in time, play a vital role in both speech and music. Proficiency in a number of rhythm skills has been linked to language ability, suggesting that certain rhythmic processes in music and language rely on overlapping resources. However, a lack of understanding about how rhythm skills relate to each other has impeded progress in understanding how language relies on rhythm processing. In particular, it is unknown whether all rhythm skills are linked together, forming a single broad rhythmic competence, or whether there are multiple dissociable rhythm skills. We hypothesized that beat tapping and rhythm memory/sequencing form two separate clusters of rhythm skills. This hypothesis was tested with a battery of two beat tapping and two rhythm memory tests. Here we show that tapping to a metronome and the ability to adjust to a changing tempo while tapping to a metronome are related skills. The ability to remember rhythms and to drum along to repeating rhythmic sequences are also related. However, we found no relationship between beat tapping skills and rhythm memory skills. Thus, beat tapping and rhythm memory are dissociable rhythmic aptitudes. This discovery may inform future research disambiguating how distinct rhythm competencies track with specific language functions. |
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spelling | pubmed-45741112015-09-18 Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills Tierney, Adam Kraus, Nina PLoS One Research Article Rhythms, or patterns in time, play a vital role in both speech and music. Proficiency in a number of rhythm skills has been linked to language ability, suggesting that certain rhythmic processes in music and language rely on overlapping resources. However, a lack of understanding about how rhythm skills relate to each other has impeded progress in understanding how language relies on rhythm processing. In particular, it is unknown whether all rhythm skills are linked together, forming a single broad rhythmic competence, or whether there are multiple dissociable rhythm skills. We hypothesized that beat tapping and rhythm memory/sequencing form two separate clusters of rhythm skills. This hypothesis was tested with a battery of two beat tapping and two rhythm memory tests. Here we show that tapping to a metronome and the ability to adjust to a changing tempo while tapping to a metronome are related skills. The ability to remember rhythms and to drum along to repeating rhythmic sequences are also related. However, we found no relationship between beat tapping skills and rhythm memory skills. Thus, beat tapping and rhythm memory are dissociable rhythmic aptitudes. This discovery may inform future research disambiguating how distinct rhythm competencies track with specific language functions. Public Library of Science 2015-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4574111/ /pubmed/26376489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136645 Text en © 2015 Tierney, Kraus http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tierney, Adam Kraus, Nina Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title | Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title_full | Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title_fullStr | Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title_short | Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills |
title_sort | evidence for multiple rhythmic skills |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136645 |
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