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The power of listening: auditory-motor interactions in musical training
Amir Lahav1, Adam Boulanger, Gottfried Schlaug
1The Music, Mind and Motion Lab, Boston University, 635 Commonwealth Ave., MA 02215, USA. lahav@bu.edu
Abstract:
We trained musically naive subjects to play a short piano melody by ear in a fully monitored computerized environment and tested their potential to acquire a functional linkage between actions and sounds. Individual notes that were simply acoustic pretraining signals became "physically meaningful" posttraining. In addition, we found preliminary evidence that passive listening to a newly learned musical piece can enhance motor performance in the absence of physical practice.
