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Can musical ability be tested online?

We sought to determine whether an objective test of musical ability could be successfully administered online. A sample of 754 participants was tested with an online version of the Musical Ear Test (MET), which had Melody and Rhythm subtests. Both subtests had 52 trials, each of which required parti...

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Autores principales: Correia, Ana Isabel, Vincenzi, Margherita, Vanzella, Patrícia, Pinheiro, Ana P., Lima, César F., Schellenberg, E. Glenn
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8357346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34382202
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01641-2
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author Correia, Ana Isabel
Vincenzi, Margherita
Vanzella, Patrícia
Pinheiro, Ana P.
Lima, César F.
Schellenberg, E. Glenn
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description We sought to determine whether an objective test of musical ability could be successfully administered online. A sample of 754 participants was tested with an online version of the Musical Ear Test (MET), which had Melody and Rhythm subtests. Both subtests had 52 trials, each of which required participants to determine whether standard and comparison auditory sequences were identical. The testing session also included the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI), a test of general cognitive ability, and self-report questionnaires that measured basic demographics (age, education, gender), mind-wandering, and personality. Approximately 20% of the participants were excluded for incomplete responding or failing to finish the testing session. For the final sample (N = 608), findings were similar to those from in-person testing in many respects: (1) the internal reliability of the MET was maintained, (2) construct validity was confirmed by strong associations with Gold-MSI scores, (3) correlations with other measures (e.g., openness to experience, cognitive ability, mind-wandering) were as predicted, (4) mean levels of performance were similar for individuals with no music training, and (5) musical sophistication was a better predictor of performance on the Melody than on the Rhythm subtest. In sum, online administration of the MET proved to be a reliable and valid way to measure musical ability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13428-021-01641-2.
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spelling pubmed-83573462021-08-12 Can musical ability be tested online? Correia, Ana Isabel Vincenzi, Margherita Vanzella, Patrícia Pinheiro, Ana P. Lima, César F. Schellenberg, E. Glenn Behav Res Methods Article We sought to determine whether an objective test of musical ability could be successfully administered online. A sample of 754 participants was tested with an online version of the Musical Ear Test (MET), which had Melody and Rhythm subtests. Both subtests had 52 trials, each of which required participants to determine whether standard and comparison auditory sequences were identical. The testing session also included the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI), a test of general cognitive ability, and self-report questionnaires that measured basic demographics (age, education, gender), mind-wandering, and personality. Approximately 20% of the participants were excluded for incomplete responding or failing to finish the testing session. For the final sample (N = 608), findings were similar to those from in-person testing in many respects: (1) the internal reliability of the MET was maintained, (2) construct validity was confirmed by strong associations with Gold-MSI scores, (3) correlations with other measures (e.g., openness to experience, cognitive ability, mind-wandering) were as predicted, (4) mean levels of performance were similar for individuals with no music training, and (5) musical sophistication was a better predictor of performance on the Melody than on the Rhythm subtest. In sum, online administration of the MET proved to be a reliable and valid way to measure musical ability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13428-021-01641-2. Springer US 2021-08-11 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8357346/ /pubmed/34382202 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01641-2 Text en © The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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