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RODRIGUES, Raone Mateus et al. The influence of timbre in the acquisition of rudimentary musical skills. Rev. Psicol. Saúde [online]. 2017, vol.9, n.3, pp. 77-93. ISSN 2177-093X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.20435/pssa.v9i3.543.

The present experiment aimed to investigate the effects of different timbre in the learning process of musical chord discriminations. Seventeen college students participated. The procedure was developed for teaching conditional relations among four different musical chords and its pictorial representations (i.e., X, Xm, Xm-5e X+5). Nine participants were given a teaching procedure in which musical chords were played by a piano (Piano Group) and other eight participants were given a teaching procedure in which the same musical chords were played by an acoustic guitar (Guitar Group). In both groups, participants increased their percentage of correct responses throughout the teaching procedure. Beyond that, data analysis also suggests the Guitar Group participants showed higher percentage of correct responses when compared to the Piano Group participants. The most recent works that used musical chords in conditional discrimination tasks did not consider issues related to the timbre. Nonetheless, our findings suggest that this variable could modulate the learning process and must be considered in futures studies about this matter.

Palavras-chave : timbre; conditional discrimination; musical chords; college students.

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