L'integrazione audiomotoria nei musicisti: quando il suono disturba l'esecuzione

Audiomotor integration constitutes an important field of research for psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Musical execution is a particular case of cross-modal integration that requires a complex interaction between output processes of motor production and planning, and the processing of input sensory information. In this context has been recently demonstrates that the process of motor planning in musical execution can be facilitated or inhibited in case of the contemporary presentation of a sound, respectively congruent or incongruent with the note to be played. This work contributes to define this effect: in particular we tried to verify, with the introduction of a baseline, if facilitation and inhibition processes can be defined in absolute terms, rather than relative. Results have been interpreted as an evidence of inhibition of the motor plan caused by incongruent sounds, and absence of inhibition in the case of congruent sounds.