Teaching Musical Stimulus Conditional Discriminations in Two Clefs Using Equivalence-Based Instruction

• Grant number: 24/05842-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: November 04, 2024
• End date: May 03, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Nassim Chamel Elias
• Grantee: André Alves Santiago
• Supervisor: Erik Arntzen
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Oslo Metropolitan University (OSLOMET), Norway
• Associated to the scholarship: 23/04670-2 - Teaching musical notes with computerized matching-to-sample to typical and atypical children, BP.MS

Abstract

Equivalence-Based Instruction (EBI) has been used to teach a wide variety of relations between stimuli, showing efficiency in its endeavor. The goal for this study is to verify the efficiency of EBI in teaching musical relations between stimuli in adults. The notes that will be taught will be six notes in the scale of C major: C, D, E, F, G and A. These notes will be taught in two clefs, G and F, and the participants will be taught to play the notes in a musical keyboard. The procedure will use specific colors for each note, which will be used as prompts that will gradually fade in four stages. The participants are expected to discriminate musical stimuli under the control of the note on the sheet and on the keyboard.