“Becoming an Expert in the Musical Domain: It Takes More Than Just Practice”, Joanne Ruthsatz, Douglas Detterman, William S. Griscom, Britney A. Cirullo2007-10-24 (IQ, music psychology; similar)⁠:

Previous research has supported the theory that acquisition of expertise in any domain is possible for healthy individuals with sufficient deliberate practice, but such an extreme environmental position brings the existence of innate talent into question.

The present study investigates the effects of both environmental factors and talent on expert performance in both high school and conservatory-level musicians. Audition scores and accumulated practice time were recorded, and correlated with scores on Gordon’s Advanced Measures of Music Audiation and Raven’s Progressive Matrices.

Higher-level musicians report statistically-significantly higher mean levels on innate characteristics such as general intelligence and music audiation, in addition to higher levels of accumulated practice time. These factors together accounted for more of the variance in music performance than practice alone.

A multi-factor view is thus shown to be the best explanation for the acquisition of musical expertise.

See Also:

• Predicting Musical Aptitude and Achievement: Practice, Teaching, and Intelligence

• Practice Does Not Make Perfect: No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Music Ability

• The genetics of music accomplishment: Evidence for gene-environment correlation and interaction

• Music and Genetics

• The genetic basis of music ability

• The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span

• Does listening to music increase your ability to discriminate musical sounds?

• Cognitive and academic benefits of music training with children: A multilevel meta-analysis

• The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: revisiting Ericsson et al 1993

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