The effect of music on learning the spatial and temporal pattern of bimanual coordination

The study sought to investigate the impact of music upon learning bimanual coordination movements with different spatial and temporal elements.

60 male right-handed students with no previous experience in playing musical instruments were randomized in 6 equally sized groups. The first, second and third group pairs were assigned with symmetric, temporally different symmetric, and temporally similar asymmetric bimanual drawing exercises, respectively, The pretest consisted of performing a bimanual coordination task with 100 metronome tempos in 60 seconds. then, the subjects attended three training sessions on three consecutive days, the post- and retention tests were held on 48 hours later.

The results of analysis of variance showed that music with exercise improves bipolar movements in bipolar coordination tasks but does not have a positive effect on transferring these tasks in reverse.

The results indicated that music accounted for significant performance improvement in symmetric bimanual drawing with similar and different temporal elements, Music improves bimanual coordination.