Effects of music course on perception and production of musical and speech sounds

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380983
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Future University-Hakodate
• Principal Investigator: Nakata Takayuki 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (00281155)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 人工内耳 / 音楽知覚認知 / 事象関連電位

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We created a novel online musical intervention and assessed its effects on music and language perception for 7-9 year-old children with cochlear implants and normally hearing children. Overall, children with cochlear implants spent more time on the training tasks than normally hearing counterparts, suggesting that the intervention was motivating for them. We plan to test more children with cochlear implants in the coming year.

Additionally, we investigated electrophysiological responses to pitch deviation with adaptive timing partner. Results showed that having an adaptive partner leads to better pitch perception and cognition (measured by electrophysiological mismatch negativity [MMN] and N400 responses to pitch change) compared with having a non-adaptive partner.

Free Research Field

実験心理学