Years of musical training correlate with better tone-pattern detection.

Evidence

Performance correlated positively with musical experience; years of formal training (correlation coefficient = 0.342, p = 0.015), as well as years of playing (correlation coefficient = 0.435, p = 0.002). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5263 (#expands, via linked claim)

However, when healthy adults are required to detect rare deviant melodic patterns in a sequence of randomly transposed standard patterns they perform close to chance. Musically experienced participants perform better than naïve participants, but even they find the task difficult, despite the fact that musical education includes training in interval recognition. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5260 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Musical training improves pattern interval detection performance; Formal musical training and playing experience both improve deviant-tone pattern detection — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5263; Formal musical training improves relative pitch pattern detection (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal musical training and playing experience both improve deviant-tone pattern detection #expands (0.95) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5263
• Formal musical training improves relative pitch pattern detection #expands (0.92)
• Even trained musicians have great difficulty detecting deviant melodic patterns under transposition #complicates (0.82) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5260