Personality predicts musical sophistication

Personality predicts musical sophistication

There is little research on the role of personality in musical expertise. We address this gap in the literature by using data from a large national study (N = 7870) to examine how scores on 10 facets of the Big Five dimensions of personality predicted self-reported musical sophistication and performance on two behavioral tests (melodic memory and rhythm perception). Personality predicted musica...

Automated Inference of Musical Sophistication From User Behaviour

Musical Sophistication and the Effect of Complexity on Auditory Discrimination in Finnish Speakers

Musical experiences and native language are both known to affect auditory processing. The present work aims to disentangle the influences of native language phonology and musicality on behavioral and subcortical sound feature processing in a population of musically diverse Finnish speakers as well as to investigate the specificity of enhancement from musical training. Finnish speakers are highl...

Correction: The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population

In the third paragraph of the Results and Discussion section under Study 2: Assessing the Adequacy of the New Self-Report Inventory, the reference should be ‘‘(see Table 1).’’ In the first paragraph of the Results and Discussion section of Study 3: Reliability, Validity and Correlates of the Self-Report Inventory, the second sentence should read: ‘‘As Table 2 shows, all scales possess good or v...

The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population

Musical skills and expertise vary greatly in Western societies. Individuals can differ in their repertoire of musical behaviours as well as in the level of skill they display for any single musical behaviour. The types of musical behaviours we refer to here are broad, ranging from performance on an instrument and listening expertise, to the ability to employ music in functional settings or to c...