Abstract
Considerable neurophysiological, neural imaging, and behavioral research indicates that auditory processing in musicians differs from that of non-musicians (e.g., Musacchia et al., 2007; Ohnishi et al., 2001; Pantev et al., 1998; Parbery-Clark, 2009). Among the auditory skills in musicians that have been studied are gap detection measures of temporal acuity (Mishra & Panda, 2014; Payne, 2012). These studies typically have compared the gap detection thresholds of musicians and non-musicians. The present work relates gap detection performance to musical aptitude rather than to reported musical training history. In addition, in the present study, gap detection was measured under two different stimulus conditions: the within-channel (WC) condition (in which the sound that precedes the gap is spectrally identical to the sound following the gap) and the across-channel (AC condition) (in which the pre- and post-gap sounds are spectrally different. Results indicate a significant correlation between across-channel gap detection thresholds and musical aptitude and no correlation between within-channel performance and musical aptitude. These results have important implications for temporal acuity as it relates to musical aptitude.
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