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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Curtin University
2012
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| author | Ruggiero, Matthew |
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| description | 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 musical pieces over a secondary task. These findings provide preliminary support for an Attentional Control Theory account of anxiety-related performance outcomes for musical tasks. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-24962017-02-20T06:39:00Z Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks Ruggiero, Matthew 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 musical pieces over a secondary task. These findings provide preliminary support for an Attentional Control Theory account of anxiety-related performance outcomes for musical tasks. 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2496 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Ruggiero, Matthew Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title | Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title_full | Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title_fullStr | Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title_short | Using Attentional Control Theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| title_sort | using attentional control theory to account for anxiety-related errors on musical performance tasks |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2496 |