Seeing How It Sounds: Observation, Imitation, and Improved Learning in Piano Playing. Issue 2 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Simones, Lilian; Rodger, Matthew; Schroeder, Franziska
• Is Part Of: Cognition and instruction. Volume 35:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 125
• Page End: 140
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Learning -- Periodicals; Cognition in children -- Periodicals; 370.15205
• DOI: 10.1080/07370008.2017.1282483
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0737-0008

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study centers upon a piano learning and teaching environment in which beginners and intermediate piano students ( N = 48) learning to perform a specific type of staccato were submitted to three different (group-exclusive) teaching conditions: audio-only demonstration of the musical task; observation of the teacher's action demonstration followed by student imitation ( blocked observation ); and observation of the teacher's action demonstration while alternating imitation of the task with the teacher's performance ( interleaved observation ). Students submitted to interleaved observation were more proficient at the learned task with no significant differences for students of different proficiency levels.