Music Auditory-Motor Skill Learning and New Technologies

加拿大音乐听觉运动技能学习和新技术研究主席的目标是更好地了解运动对音乐刺激的反应的变化（例如，随着节拍移动），以及它对学习运动技能的影响。感知和行动的良好协调是执行日常任务的关键，例如说话，走路或演奏乐器。这把椅子的程序侧重于音乐的节奏感知和移动到它的能力（即，节拍感知和同步）作为运动技能及其学习的模型。一个目标是在人们耦合运动的能力中定义个体简档（例如，通过手指敲击，步骤）的节拍，并确定潜在的机制。第二个目标是测试这些配置文件在多大程度上促进了运动技能学习和大脑可塑性。为了实现这一目标，Chair项目利用了行为测试、大量在线数据收集、机器学习和神经生理学等方法。研究结果将产生关于运动技能个体差异的新颖和原创见解，并为理论驱动的创新技术解决方案铺平道路，以改善学习。

The objective of The Canada Research Chair in Music Auditory-Motor Skill Learning and New Technologies is to gain a better understanding of the variability of motor response to musical stimuli (e.g., moving to the beat), and its effects on the learning of auditory-motor skills. Fine coordination of perception and action is key to performing everyday tasks such as speaking, walking, or playing a musical instrument. The program of this Chair focuses on rhythm perception in music and the ability to move to it (i.e., beat perception and synchronization) as a model of auditory-motor skills and their learning. One goal is to define individual profiles in people's ability to couple movements (e.g., by finger taps, steps) to the beat, and identify the underlying mechanisms. A second goal is to test to what extent these profiles foster auditory-motor skill learning and brain plasticity. To this aim the Chair program harnesses methods spanning behavioral testing, massive online data collection, machine learning, and neurophysiology. The results will generate novel and original insights about individual differences in auditory-motor skills, and pave the way to theory-driven innovative technological solutions for improving learning.