The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task
Numerous studies have reported both cortical and functional changes for visual, tactile, and auditory brain areas in musicians, which have been attributed to long-term training induced neuroplasticity. Previous investigations have reported advantages for musicians in multisensory processing at the b...
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| author | Riku Ihalainen Georgios Kotsaridis Ana B. Vivas Evangelos Paraskevopoulos |
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| description | Numerous studies have reported both cortical and functional changes for visual, tactile, and auditory brain areas in musicians, which have been attributed to long-term training induced neuroplasticity. Previous investigations have reported advantages for musicians in multisensory processing at the behavioural level, however, multisensory integration with tasks requiring higher level cognitive processing has not yet been extensively studied. Here, we investigated the association between musical expertise and the processing of audiovisual crossmodal correspondences in a decision reaction-time task. The visual display varied in three dimensions (elevation, symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude), while the auditory stimulus varied in pitch. Congruency was based on a set of newly learned abstract rules: “The higher the spatial elevation, the higher the tone”, “the more dots presented, the higher the tone”, and “the higher the number presented, the higher the tone”, and accuracy and reaction times were recorded. Musicians were significantly more accurate in their responses than non-musicians, suggesting an association between long-term musical training and audiovisual integration. Contrary to what was hypothesized, no differences in reaction times were found. The musicians’ advantage on accuracy was also observed for rule-based congruency in seemingly unrelated stimuli (pitch-magnitude). These results suggest an interaction between implicit and explicit processing–as reflected on reaction times and accuracy, respectively. This advantage was generalised on congruency in otherwise unrelated stimuli (pitch-magnitude pairs), suggesting an advantage on processes requiring higher order cognitive functions. The results support the notion that accuracy and latency measures may reflect different processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf3cfb97b00e49e3a36d54020fb5c3752023-04-09T05:32:20ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01184The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time taskRiku IhalainenGeorgios KotsaridisAna B. VivasEvangelos ParaskevopoulosNumerous studies have reported both cortical and functional changes for visual, tactile, and auditory brain areas in musicians, which have been attributed to long-term training induced neuroplasticity. Previous investigations have reported advantages for musicians in multisensory processing at the behavioural level, however, multisensory integration with tasks requiring higher level cognitive processing has not yet been extensively studied. Here, we investigated the association between musical expertise and the processing of audiovisual crossmodal correspondences in a decision reaction-time task. The visual display varied in three dimensions (elevation, symbolic and non-symbolic magnitude), while the auditory stimulus varied in pitch. Congruency was based on a set of newly learned abstract rules: “The higher the spatial elevation, the higher the tone”, “the more dots presented, the higher the tone”, and “the higher the number presented, the higher the tone”, and accuracy and reaction times were recorded. Musicians were significantly more accurate in their responses than non-musicians, suggesting an association between long-term musical training and audiovisual integration. Contrary to what was hypothesized, no differences in reaction times were found. The musicians’ advantage on accuracy was also observed for rule-based congruency in seemingly unrelated stimuli (pitch-magnitude). These results suggest an interaction between implicit and explicit processing–as reflected on reaction times and accuracy, respectively. This advantage was generalised on congruency in otherwise unrelated stimuli (pitch-magnitude pairs), suggesting an advantage on processes requiring higher order cognitive functions. The results support the notion that accuracy and latency measures may reflect different processes.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079049/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Riku Ihalainen Georgios Kotsaridis Ana B. Vivas Evangelos Paraskevopoulos The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task PLoS ONE |
| title | The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task |
| title_full | The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task |
| title_short | The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task |
| title_sort | relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences evidence from a reaction time task |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079049/?tool=EBI |
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