Classical conditioned responses to absent tones |
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| Authors: | Marc Bangert Uwe Jürgens Udo H?usler and Eckart Altenmüller |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians Medicine, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Hohenzollernstrasse 47, D-30161 Hanover, Germany;(2) Dept of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave (Palmer 127), 02215 Boston, MA, USA;(3) German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, D-37077 G?ttingen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Background Recent evidence for a tight coupling of sensorimotor processes in trained musicians led to the question of whether this coupling
extends to preattentively mediated reflexes; particularly, whether a classically conditioned response in one of the domains
(auditory) is generalized to another (tactile/motor) on the basis of a prior association in a second-order Pavlovian paradigm.
An eyeblink conditioning procedure was performed in 17 pianists, serving as a model for overlearned audiomotor integration,
and 14 non-musicians. Results: During the training session, subjects were conditioned to respond to auditory stimuli (piano
tones). During a subsequent testing session, when subjects performed keystrokes on a silent piano, pianists showed significantly
higher blink rates than non-musicians. |
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