Abstract
The impact of musical experience on results concerning sound perception in
selected auditory tasks, such as pitch discrimination, pitch-timbre
categorization and pitch memorization for blind and visually impaired
children and teenagers is discussed. Subjects were divided into three
groups: of those with no experience of music, with small musical
experience and with substantial musical experience. The blind and visually
impaired subjects were investigated, while sighted persons formed
reference groups. To date no study has described impact of musical
experience on results of such experiments for blind and visually impaired
children and teenagers. Our results suggest that blind persons with
musical experience may be more sensitive to frequency differences and
differences in timbre between two signals as well as may have better
short-term auditory memory than blind people with no musical experience.
Musical experience of visually impaired persons does not necessary lead to
better performance in all conducted auditory tasks.
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