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的是更好地了解运动对音乐刺激(例如，随着节拍移动)的反应的变异性，以及它对听觉-运动技能学习的影响。感知和行动的精细协调是完成日常任务的关键，比如说话、走路或演奏乐器。该教席的课程侧重于音乐中的节奏感知和移向节奏的能力(即节拍感知和同步)，作为听觉-运动技能及其学习的模型。一个目标是定义人们将动作(例如，通过手指敲击、脚步)与节拍相结合的能力的个人概况，并确定潜在的机制。第二个目标是测试这些特征在多大程度上促进听觉-运动技能学习和大脑可塑性。为此，主席计划利用跨越行为测试、大量在线数据收集、机器学习和神经生理学的方法。这些结果将对听觉运动技能的个体差异产生新颖和原创性的见解，并为以理论为导向的创新技术解决方案改善学习铺平道路。

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.