People reliably select the actual winners of live music competitions based on silent video recordings, but neither musical novices nor professional musicians were able to identify the winners based on sound recordings or recordings with both video and sound.
The statement is an overgeneralization. It seems to be saying that novices and professionals are only able to identify the winners based visual information but the conclusion presumably only refers to the test subjects. How many test subjects were there? Was it a large enough sample to substantiate the finding? There is nothing about a double blind statement or other complex indicators that might exist either in the test environment or what was even in the video recording. It was an interesting finding but was it accurate? Is it substantial enough for us to accept? - Jim Bromer On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:17 AM, tintner michael <[email protected]>wrote: > What we see may influence what we hear with music, as well. > See below. > CA > > Sight over sound in the judgment of music performance > Chia-Jung Tsay > Abstract > Social judgments are made on the basis of both visual and auditory > information, with consequential implications for our decisions. To examine > the impact of visual information on expert judgment and its predictive > validity for performance outcomes, this set of seven experiments in the > domain of music offers a conservative test of the relative influence of > vision versus audition. People consistently report that sound is the most > important source of information in evaluating performance in music. > However, the findings demonstrate that people actually depend primarily on > visual information when making judgments about music performance. People > reliably select the actual winners of live music competitions based on > silent video recordings, but neither musical novices nor professional > musicians were able to identify the winners based on sound recordings or > recordings with both video and sound. The results highlight our natural, > automatic, and nonconscious > dependence on visual cues. The dominance of visual information emerges to > the degree that it is overweighted relative to auditory information, even > when sound is consciously valued as the core domain content. > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-f5817f28> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
