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The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities
Humans naturally perceive and move to a musical beat, entraining body movements to auditory rhythms through clapping, tapping, and dancing. Yet the accuracy of this seemingly effortless behavior varies widely across individuals. Beat perception and production abilities can be improved by experience,...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35259161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264587 |
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author | Hsu, Prisca Ready, Emily A. Grahn, Jessica A. |
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description | Humans naturally perceive and move to a musical beat, entraining body movements to auditory rhythms through clapping, tapping, and dancing. Yet the accuracy of this seemingly effortless behavior varies widely across individuals. Beat perception and production abilities can be improved by experience, such as music and dance training, and impaired by progressive neurological changes, such as in Parkinson’s disease. In this study, we assessed the effects of music and dance experience on beat processing in young and older adults, as well as individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. We used the Beat Alignment Test (BAT) to assess beat perception and production in a convenience sample of 458 participants (278 healthy young adults, 139 healthy older adults, and 41 people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease), with varying levels of music and dance training. In general, we found that participants with over three years of music training had more accurate beat perception than those with less training (p < .001). Interestingly, Parkinson’s disease patients with music training had beat production abilities comparable to healthy adults while Parkinson’s disease patients with minimal to no music training performed significantly worse. No effects were found in healthy adults for dance training, and too few Parkinson’s disease patients had dance training to reliably assess its effects. The finding that musically trained Parkinson’s disease patients performed similarly to healthy adults during a beat production task, while untrained patients did not, suggests music training may preserve certain rhythmic motor timing abilities in early-stage Parkinson’s disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-89032812022-03-09 The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities Hsu, Prisca Ready, Emily A. Grahn, Jessica A. PLoS One Research Article Humans naturally perceive and move to a musical beat, entraining body movements to auditory rhythms through clapping, tapping, and dancing. Yet the accuracy of this seemingly effortless behavior varies widely across individuals. Beat perception and production abilities can be improved by experience, such as music and dance training, and impaired by progressive neurological changes, such as in Parkinson’s disease. In this study, we assessed the effects of music and dance experience on beat processing in young and older adults, as well as individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. We used the Beat Alignment Test (BAT) to assess beat perception and production in a convenience sample of 458 participants (278 healthy young adults, 139 healthy older adults, and 41 people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease), with varying levels of music and dance training. In general, we found that participants with over three years of music training had more accurate beat perception than those with less training (p < .001). Interestingly, Parkinson’s disease patients with music training had beat production abilities comparable to healthy adults while Parkinson’s disease patients with minimal to no music training performed significantly worse. No effects were found in healthy adults for dance training, and too few Parkinson’s disease patients had dance training to reliably assess its effects. The finding that musically trained Parkinson’s disease patients performed similarly to healthy adults during a beat production task, while untrained patients did not, suggests music training may preserve certain rhythmic motor timing abilities in early-stage Parkinson’s disease. Public Library of Science 2022-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8903281/ /pubmed/35259161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264587 Text en © 2022 Hsu et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hsu, Prisca Ready, Emily A. Grahn, Jessica A. The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title | The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title_full | The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title_fullStr | The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title_short | The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
title_sort | effects of parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35259161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264587 |
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