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The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities

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  • Prisca Hsu
  • Emily A Ready
  • Jessica A Grahn

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Humans naturally perceive and move to a musical beat, entraining body movements to auditory rhythms through clapping, tapping, and dancing. Yet the accuracy of this seemingly effortless behavior varies widely across individuals. Beat perception and production abilities can be improved by experience, such as music and dance training, and impaired by progressive neurological changes, such as in Parkinson’s disease. In this study, we assessed the effects of music and dance experience on beat processing in young and older adults, as well as individuals with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. We used the Beat Alignment Test (BAT) to assess beat perception and production in a convenience sample of 458 participants (278 healthy young adults, 139 healthy older adults, and 41 people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease), with varying levels of music and dance training. In general, we found that participants with over three years of music training had more accurate beat perception than those with less training (p

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  • Prisca Hsu & Emily A Ready & Jessica A Grahn, 2022. "The effects of Parkinson’s disease, music training, and dance training on beat perception and production abilities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(3), pages 1-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0264587
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264587
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    1. Pauline Tranchant & Dominique T Vuvan & Isabelle Peretz, 2016. "Keeping the Beat: A Large Sample Study of Bouncing and Clapping to Music," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-19, July.
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