Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks

This research evaluated the effects of anxiety and distraction on attentional control during musical performances. Performers with moderate to high trait anxiety demonstrated reduced attentional control when exposed to distraction. This created impairments in the shifting function that favoured the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruggiero, Matthew
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2496