ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2013
The influence of chronotype on making music: circadian fluctuations in pianists' fine motor skills.
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- Central retinal venous pressure is higher than intraocular pressure during amateur trumpet playing.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2019Trial
- Spontaneous motor tempo over the course of a week: the role of the time of the day, chronotype, and arousal.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Perspectives of Circadian-Based Music Therapy for the Pathogenesis and Symptomatic Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2021Review
- Spontaneous Motor Tempo: Investigating Psychological, Chronobiological, and Demographic Factors in a Large-Scale Online Tapping Experiment.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Physiological and Behavioral Factors in Musicians' Performance Tempo.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Musicians: Larks, Owls or Hummingbirds?Journal of circadian rhythms · 2019Article
- Frontoparietal cortex and cerebellum contribution to the update of actual and mental motor performance during the day.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Molecular insights into chronotype and time-of-day effects on decision-making.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Playing beautifully when you have to be fast: spatial and temporal symmetries of movement patterns in skilled piano performance at different tempi.Experimental brain research · 2014Article
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Abstract
Making music on a professional level requires a maximum of sensorimotor precision. Chronotype-dependent fluctuations of sensorimotor precision in the course of the day may prove a challenge for musicians because public performances or recordings are usually scheduled at fixed times of the day. We investigated pianists' sensorimotor timing precision in a scale playing task performed in the morning and in the evening. Participants' chronotype was established through the Munich Chrono-Type Questionnaire, where mid-sleep time served as a marker for the individual chronotypes. Twenty-one piano students were included in the study. Timing precision was decomposed into consistent within-trial variability (irregularity) and residual, between-trial variability (instability). The timing patterns of late chronotype pianists were more stable in the evening than in the morning, whereas early chronotype pianists did not show a difference between the two recording timepoints. In sum, the present results indicate that even highly complex sensorimotor tasks such as music playing are affected by interactions between chronotype and the time of day. Thus, even long-term, massed practice of these expert musicians has not been able to wash out circadian fluctuations in performance.
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