The relationship between musical training and the processing of audiovisual correspondences: Evidence from a reaction time task.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Ihalainen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079049 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature