Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks

The impact of musical experience on results concerning sound perception in selected auditory tasks, such as pitch discrimination, pitch-timbre categorization and pitch memorization for blind and visually impaired children and teenagers is discussed. Subjects were divided into three groups: of those...

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Main Authors: Edyta BOGUSZ-WITCZAK, Ewa SKRODZKA, Hanna TURKOWSKA
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2015-06-01
Series:Archives of Acoustics
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/736
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description The impact of musical experience on results concerning sound perception in selected auditory tasks, such as pitch discrimination, pitch-timbre categorization and pitch memorization for blind and visually impaired children and teenagers is discussed. Subjects were divided into three groups: of those with no experience of music, with small musical experience and with substantial musical experience. The blind and visually impaired subjects were investigated, while sighted persons formed reference groups. To date no study has described impact of musical experience on results of such experiments for blind and visually impaired children and teenagers. Our results suggest that blind persons with musical experience may be more sensitive to frequency differences and differences in timbre between two signals as well as may have better short-term auditory memory than blind people with no musical experience. Musical experience of visually impaired persons does not necessary lead to better performance in all conducted auditory tasks.
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spelling doaj-art-59bbca43af8f45969f6cadffd17ee8112025-08-20T03:25:25ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2015-06-0140310.1515/aoa-2015-0037Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory TasksEdyta BOGUSZ-WITCZAK0Ewa SKRODZKA1Hanna TURKOWSKA2Institute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityInstitute of Acoustics, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityBuilding Research Institute, Department of AcousticsThe impact of musical experience on results concerning sound perception in selected auditory tasks, such as pitch discrimination, pitch-timbre categorization and pitch memorization for blind and visually impaired children and teenagers is discussed. Subjects were divided into three groups: of those with no experience of music, with small musical experience and with substantial musical experience. The blind and visually impaired subjects were investigated, while sighted persons formed reference groups. To date no study has described impact of musical experience on results of such experiments for blind and visually impaired children and teenagers. Our results suggest that blind persons with musical experience may be more sensitive to frequency differences and differences in timbre between two signals as well as may have better short-term auditory memory than blind people with no musical experience. Musical experience of visually impaired persons does not necessary lead to better performance in all conducted auditory tasks.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/736auditory tasksblind and visually impaired children and teenagersmusical experience.
spellingShingle Edyta BOGUSZ-WITCZAK
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Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
Archives of Acoustics
auditory tasks
blind and visually impaired children and teenagers
musical experience.
title Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
title_full Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
title_fullStr Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
title_full_unstemmed Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
title_short Influence of Musical Experience of Blind and Visually Impaired Young Persons on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks on Performance in Selected Auditory Tasks
title_sort influence of musical experience of blind and visually impaired young persons on performance in selected auditory tasks on performance in selected auditory tasks
topic auditory tasks
blind and visually impaired children and teenagers
musical experience.
url https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/736
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