Focus of Attention Affects Performance of Motor Skills in Music

Autor/inn/en	Duke, Robert A.; Cash, Carla Davis; Allen, Sarah E.
Titel	Focus of Attention Affects Performance of Motor Skills in Music
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Music Education, 59 (2011) 1, S. 44-55Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4294
DOI	10.1177/0022429410396093
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Music Education; Musical Instruments; Psychomotor Skills; Instruction; Experiments; Attention; Physical Activity Level; Feedback (Response); Perceptual Motor Learning; Memory; Musicians; Cues; Intervals; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Musikinstrument; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Teaching process; Unterrichtsprozess; Erprobung; Aufmerksamkeit; Perceptual-motor learning; Sensumotorisches Lernen; Wahrnehmungsschulung; Gedächtnis; Musiker; Stichwort
Abstract	To test the extent to which learners performing a simple keyboard passage would be affected by directing their focus of attention to different aspects of their movements, 16 music majors performed a brief keyboard passage under each of four focus conditions arranged in a counterbalanced design--a total of 64 experimental sessions. As they performed the test passage, participants were directed to focus their attention on either their fingers, the piano keys, the piano hammers, or the sound produced. Complete MIDI data for all responses were digitally recorded by software written specifically for this experiment. Consistent with findings obtained in tests of other physical skills, the results show that performance was most accurate and generalizable when participants focused on the effects their movements produced rather than on the movements themselves, and that the more distal the focus of attention, the more accurate the motor control. (Contains 2 figures and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10