RT Journal Article
T1 Influence of Music on Closed Motor Skills: A Controlled Study with Novice Female Dart-Throwers
A1 Arbinaga, Félix
A1 Romero Pérez, Nehemías
A1 Torres Rosado, Lidia
A1 Fernández Ozcorta, Eduardo José
A1 Mendoza Sierra, María Isabel
AB The influence of music heard at different tempos is analyzed during the execution of adart-throwing task. The sample consisted of 56 female university students (Mean age = 23.38, SD =6.773). The participants were randomly assigned to GC (group control without music; n = 18), GS(group with slow-paced music at a tempo of 60 BPM; n = 19) and GF (group with fast-paced musicat a tempo of 105 BPM; n = 19). All participants performed a dart-throwing task in two phases.Analysis of the scores obtained during Phase 1 and Phase 2 of dart throwing (examining bothbetween-group differences and within-group differences, i.e., changes in scores from Phase 1 toPhase 2 using a mixed factorial ANOVA) revealed no differences in dart-throwing scores. Therewere, however, differences in execution time, where the participants in GS needed more time tocomplete the task than those in GF (F(2,55) = 4.426, p = 0.017) with a large effect size (ŋ2p = 0.143),although neither of these groups differed from GC. The results are discussed in terms of the role ofmusic in precision tasks and the synchronization of the task with the pace of the music.
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2020
FD 2020-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18277
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18277
LA eng
NO Arbinaga Ibarzabal, F., Romero Pérez, N., Torres Rosado, L., Fernández Ozcorta, E. J., Mendoza Sierra, M. I. (2020). Influence of Music on Closed Motor Skills: A Controlled Study with Novice Female Dart-Throwers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 4146;  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17114146
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 13 jul 2026