Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license
Authors
1 Assistant professor of Department of Motor Behavior and sport psychology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 M.Sc. in Motor Behavior, Department of motor behavior and sport psychology Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
3 Instructor of Department of Sports physiology, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
Abstract
Introduction: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of training with different rhythms of music on the coupling of bimanual movement.
methodology: The participants were 48students (15-17 years old) who were divided into three groups of 16 people. In the pretest, they performed four bimanual movements of varying difficulty, which included circle-line drawing. In the exercise, only the task of drawing circle- right hand and horizontal line- left hand was done. Three training sessions (4blocks of 10trials) were performed. During the training, the first group listened to music with 120 beats per minute and the second group listened to 90 beats per minute. The third group practiced without music. They did the immediate post-test and 48 hours later the retention and transfer test. For statistical analysis, mixed-ANOVA test were performed using SPSS software.
Findings: The results showed that training with music in simple transfer and retention tests led to improvement in the spatial pattern of the bimanual circle-line drawing task, but in the difficult transfer test, the exercises, especially in the first group caused a drop in performance. So that in the time pattern or the number of circle-line in the difficult transfer test, a performance drop was observed and a negative transfer occurred.
Conclusion: Overall, after the training, perhaps due to the simplicity of the task, strong bimanual coupling did not occur. Also, temporal coupling was stronger than spatial coupling, and the higher the tempo of the music, the higher the amount of bimanual coupling.
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