Development and first psychometric parameters from battery of musical perception skills (AHPM)for children from elementary school

• Grant number: 14/06662-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music
• Principal Investigator: Hugo Cogo Moreira
• Grantee: Hugo Cogo Moreira
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Graziela Bortz ; Sylvain Moreno
• Associated research grant(s): 16/50195-0 - Health and abilities measurement in population surveys: an application of the generalized latent variable modeling framework to high dimensional data, AP.R SPRINT

Abstract

The study of music perception has been expanding into areas of knowledge that transcend the musical area in itself, for example, psychology, psychobiology, and neuroscience. However, there are few available tool which are validated and with good psychometric indices and theoretical based. The musical perception allows to explore several neural functions, being showed as a predictor of several verbal skills, such as reading ability. Battery Assessment Skills Musical Perception (BAHPM) was inspired by the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA). The former consists of only 75 items that were thought to embrace, on contrary to MBEA, seven areas of music perception in a broad way concerning seven domains: rhythmic, duration, intensity, timbre, contour, scale and metric. It is proposed in this project to study the underlying latent structure BAHPM exploring the characteristic of music perception in itself (either dimensional , categorical or mixed), the invariance of the model and the parameters of difficulty and discrimination for each of the 75 items. Given statistical analysis to be employed - the item response theory (IRT) - 1200 children, from elementary school, will be selected randomly from São Paulo city following a stratified sampling considering the proportion of type of schools (state, municipal, private). It is expected to obtain a tool for assessment of music perception faster than the MBEA, in an interdisciplinary way, and with national technology allowing the partnership between music and neurosciences. Moreover, the process of evaluating of 75 items, per se, will explore how the phenomenon of music perception is perceived by children. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BARROS, CAIO G.; SWARDFAGER, WALTER; MORENO, SYLVAIN; BORTZ, GRAZIELA; ILARI, BEATRIZ; JACKOWSKI, ANDREA P.; PLOUBIDIS, GEORGE; LITTLE, TODD D.; LAMONT, ALEXANDRA; COGO-MOREIRA, HUGO. Assessing Music Perception in Young Children: Evidence for and Psychometric Features of the M-Factor. FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE, v. 11, JAN 24 2017. (14/06662-8, 16/50195-0)

COGO-MOREIRA, HUGO; LAMONT, ALEXANDRA. Multidimensional measurement of exposure to music in childhood: Beyond the musician/non-musician dichotomy. PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC, v. 46, n. 4, p. 459-472, JUL 2018. (14/06662-8)