TY - JOUR AU - McKenzie, Cory AU - Ostevik, Amberley AU - Hodgetts, Bill AU - Cummine, Jacqueline AU - Aalto, Daniel PY - 2019/10/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Associations Between Musical Experience and Auditory Discrimination JF - Canadian Acoustics JA - Canadian Acoustics VL - 47 IS - 3 SE - Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada DO - UR - https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/3342 SP - 30-31 AB - <table class="data" width="100%"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td class="value" width="80%"><p>Background: Auditory processing is affected by both musical experience and native language. However, which aspects of auditory perception are influenced by musical experience for which language groups is not known.</p><p>Objectives: To identify how musical experience is related to auditory discrimination for English speakers, and to compare these results with previous literature on other languages.</p><p>Design: Scores on the Goldsmith Musical Sophistication Index self-report questionnaire were correlated to six aspects of auditory discrimination. Auditory discrimination was measured using three two-choice forced decision tasks for simple pitch discrimination, simple duration discrimination, and complex duration discrimination.</p><p>Results: Only pitch discrimination was significantly related to musical experience after correction for multiple correlations.</p><p>Conclusions: Improved pitch discrimination has been associated with musical experience in many studies and in many language groups. However, other aspects of auditory perception appear to have a different relationship with musical experience depending on native language.There are many questions remaining, and a direct comparison of different languages for how musical experience affects auditory discrimination is needed.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> ER -