Temporal Perception and Attention in Trained Musicians

Considerable evidence converges on the plasticity of attention and possibility that it can be modulated through regular training. Music training, for instance, has been correlated with modulations early perceptual attentional processes. However, extent to which music training modulate mechanisms involved in processing information (i.e., perception attention) is still widely unknown, particularly between sensory modalities. If one modality lead concomitant enhancements different modalities, then this could taken as a supramodal system. Additionally, if trained musicians exhibit improved skills outside domain music, notion far-transfer, where improvements another. To investigate further, we evaluated effects using tasks designed measure simultaneity temporal acuity, how these are influenced by auditory, visual, audio-visual conditions. Trained showed significant visual modality, well generally although not all Visual cues directing discrimination accuracy auditory discrimination, suggesting have selective arguably due increased efficiency when compared nonmusicians. Implications theory future studies discussed.