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Possible Benefits Of Playing Music Video Games, Amanda Pasinski
Possible Benefits Of Playing Music Video Games, Amanda Pasinski
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Music video games, such as Rock Band, are an emerging and popular genre of video game that allows non-musicians a taste of what it is like to be a musician. For most people, developing musicianship (or the process of becoming competent with a particular musical instrument) to an expert level is a long and difficult process that can take up to 10 years or over 7,500 hours to complete. Yet musicians tend to outperform non-musicians on a variety of tasks--showing greater motor coordination, better synchronization skills, and better pitch and tempo discrimination--and possibly show differences in related cognitive processes. However, …
Factors Affecting Talent Development: Differences In Graduate Students Across Domains, Stephanie Hartzell
Factors Affecting Talent Development: Differences In Graduate Students Across Domains, Stephanie Hartzell
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
There is an abundance of literature on young individuals who show early signs of talent and on older individuals who have demonstrated their abilities throughout the years. This research aims to look at those individuals who are in between, that is, graduate students who have the demonstrated potential to achieve within their fields of study. This study explored backgrounds of talented individuals in their adolescent period and their current measures of cognitive abilities. A total of 38 graduate students majoring in the areas of art (n= 12), science (n= 12), and education (n= 14) were used as examples of individuals …