Individual differences in sensorimotor skills among musicians

Publication date: April 2018 Source:Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 20 Author(s): Shinichi Furuya The grace of a musician has always fascinated people in the world. It has been widely accepted that quantity of musical practice is a prerequisite but not sufficient for acquisition of musical expertise. An increasing number of studies have recently proposed that an interaction between gene and environment underlies musical expertise, based on empirical evidences demonstrating roles of genetic predisposition. In contrast, it has not been elucidated how ways of musical practice play a role in the expertise, which limits optimizing musical training and education that realizes expressive and virtuosic performance. The present article proposes a theoretical framework for possible impacts of how to practice on acquisition of fast, accurate, and efficient musical performance, on the basis of principles and empirical evidences of motor learning.
Source: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research