Abstract
Objective tests of musical abilities have been used in education and performance assessment, and as criterion-based measures in music cognition research. However, attempts to rigorously measure individual differences in musical abilities are few and recent (Law & Zentner, 2013; Mullensiefen et al., 2012). We present the psychometric development of a test of beat perception ability based on Iversen and Patel’s BAT procedure (2008). The test uses realistic and ecologically valid stimuli, covers a range of musical ability levels in the non-specialist population, and is compliant with a 1-parameter Rasch measurement model. We also report results from a mass experiment on musical listening abilities and musical behaviours in the general population ( N = cca. 139 000) which showed that individual differences in beat perception abilities are closely related to self-reported behaviours and also to an interaction between an individual’s level of musical training and psychoacoustic features of the stimulus items.
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