Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing
Deficits in bimanual coordination of older adults have been demonstrated to significantly limit their functioning in daily life. As a bimanual sensorimotor task, instrument playing has great potential for motor and cognitive training in advanced age. While the process of matching a person’s repetiti...
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| description | Deficits in bimanual coordination of older adults have been demonstrated to significantly limit their functioning in daily life. As a bimanual sensorimotor task, instrument playing has great potential for motor and cognitive training in advanced age. While the process of matching a person’s repetitive movements to auditory rhythmic cueing during instrument playing was documented to involve motor and attentional control, investigation into whether the level of cognitive functioning influences the ability to rhythmically coordinate movement to an external beat in older populations is relatively limited. Therefore, the current study aimed to examine how timing accuracy during bimanual instrument playing with rhythmic cueing differed depending on the degree of participants’ cognitive aging. Twenty one young adults, 20 healthy older adults, and 17 older adults with mild dementia participated in this study. Each participant tapped an electronic drum in time to the rhythmic cueing provided using both hands simultaneously and in alternation. During bimanual instrument playing with rhythmic cueing, mean and variability of synchronization errors were measured and compared across the groups and the tempo of cueing during each type of tapping task. Correlations of such timing parameters with cognitive measures were also analyzed. The results showed that the group factor resulted in significant differences in the synchronization errors-related parameters. During bimanual tapping tasks, cognitive decline resulted in differences in synchronization errors between younger adults and older adults with mild dimentia. Also, in terms of variability of synchronization errors, younger adults showed significant differences in maintaining timing performance from older adults with and without mild dementia, which may be attributed to decreased processing time for bimanual coordination due to aging. Significant correlations were observed between variability of synchronization errors and performance of cognitive tasks involving executive control and cognitive flexibility when asked for bimanual coordination in response to external timing cues at adjusted tempi. Also, significant correlations with cognitive measures were more prevalent in variability of synchronization errors during alternative tapping compared to simultaneous tapping. The current study supports that bimanual tapping may be predictive of cognitive processing of older adults. Also, tempo and type of movement required for instrument playing both involve cognitive and motor loads at different levels, and such variables could be important factors for determining the complexity of the task and the involved task requirements for interventions using instrument playing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5de9b272c9674daeb84ea34fd8b849f12022-12-22T00:48:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-09-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.01569234938Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic CueingSoo Ji Kim0Soo Ji Kim1Sung-Rae Cho2Sung-Rae Cho3Sung-Rae Cho4Ga Eul Yoo5Ga Eul Yoo6Music Therapy Education, Graduate School of Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South KoreaEwha Music Rehabilitation Center, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment and Research Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South KoreaBrain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South KoreaRehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South KoreaEwha Music Rehabilitation Center, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Music Therapy, Graduate School, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South KoreaDeficits in bimanual coordination of older adults have been demonstrated to significantly limit their functioning in daily life. As a bimanual sensorimotor task, instrument playing has great potential for motor and cognitive training in advanced age. While the process of matching a person’s repetitive movements to auditory rhythmic cueing during instrument playing was documented to involve motor and attentional control, investigation into whether the level of cognitive functioning influences the ability to rhythmically coordinate movement to an external beat in older populations is relatively limited. Therefore, the current study aimed to examine how timing accuracy during bimanual instrument playing with rhythmic cueing differed depending on the degree of participants’ cognitive aging. Twenty one young adults, 20 healthy older adults, and 17 older adults with mild dementia participated in this study. Each participant tapped an electronic drum in time to the rhythmic cueing provided using both hands simultaneously and in alternation. During bimanual instrument playing with rhythmic cueing, mean and variability of synchronization errors were measured and compared across the groups and the tempo of cueing during each type of tapping task. Correlations of such timing parameters with cognitive measures were also analyzed. The results showed that the group factor resulted in significant differences in the synchronization errors-related parameters. During bimanual tapping tasks, cognitive decline resulted in differences in synchronization errors between younger adults and older adults with mild dimentia. Also, in terms of variability of synchronization errors, younger adults showed significant differences in maintaining timing performance from older adults with and without mild dementia, which may be attributed to decreased processing time for bimanual coordination due to aging. Significant correlations were observed between variability of synchronization errors and performance of cognitive tasks involving executive control and cognitive flexibility when asked for bimanual coordination in response to external timing cues at adjusted tempi. Also, significant correlations with cognitive measures were more prevalent in variability of synchronization errors during alternative tapping compared to simultaneous tapping. The current study supports that bimanual tapping may be predictive of cognitive processing of older adults. Also, tempo and type of movement required for instrument playing both involve cognitive and motor loads at different levels, and such variables could be important factors for determining the complexity of the task and the involved task requirements for interventions using instrument playing.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01569/fullolder adultscognitive agingbimanual coordinationinstrument playingtiming accuracy |
| spellingShingle | Soo Ji Kim Soo Ji Kim Sung-Rae Cho Sung-Rae Cho Sung-Rae Cho Ga Eul Yoo Ga Eul Yoo Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing Frontiers in Psychology older adults cognitive aging bimanual coordination instrument playing timing accuracy |
| title | Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing |
| title_full | Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing |
| title_fullStr | Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing |
| title_short | Age-Related Changes in Bimanual Instrument Playing with Rhythmic Cueing |
| title_sort | age related changes in bimanual instrument playing with rhythmic cueing |
| topic | older adults cognitive aging bimanual coordination instrument playing timing accuracy |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01569/full |
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