Do musicians learn a fine sequential hand motor skill differently than non-musicians?

ABSTRACT: Do professional musicians learn a fine sequential hand motor skill more efficiently than non-musicians? Is this also the case when they perform motor imagery, which implies that they only mentally simulate these movements? Musicians and non-musicians performed a Go/NoGo discrete sequence production (DSP) task, which allows to separate sequence-specific from a-specific learning effects. In this task five stimuli, to be memorized during a preparation interval, signaled a response sequence. In a practice phase, different response sequences had to be either executed, imagined, or inhibited, which was indicated by different response cues. In a test phase, responses were required to familiar (previously executed, imagined, or inhibited) and unfamiliar sequences. In both phases, response times an

SUBMITTER: Sobierajewicz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6248955 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature