Our paper is a replication of this previous study under more controlled conditions.
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(2017), which investigated if participants could determine whether an audio sample was played by a professional pianist or a child prodigy.
This widespread definition was the basis for the study by Comeau et al.
© 2017 BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Īccording to Feldman (1993), musical prodigies are expected to perform at the same high level as professional adult musicians and, therefore, are indistinguishable from adults. Furthermore, the rate at which prodigies progressed in their playing appears higher than for regular students, suggesting that rate of progress might be used as an additional criterion for defining music prodigy. Yet older prodigies (11 to 14) were harder to distinguish from professionals thanyoungerprodigies(under10), suggestingaprotracted developmental trajectory for prodigy performance. Their low performance implies that prodigies perform well enoughto be judged in terms of the most demanding criteria of performance in the field. Listeners performed above chance in both tasks but by a very modest margin, and musicians performed better than nonmusicians. We tested this definition by asking musicians and nonmusicians to (1) judge whether audio clips were played by a prodigy or a professional, and (2) identify which of two clips of the same piece was played by a prodigy.
The most widespread definition characterizes a prodigy as a child who, at a very young age (typically before 10) performs at an adult professional level (Feldman & Goldsmith, 1986). LITTLE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED on prodigies, in no small part due to the fact that there exists no agreed-upon definition with which to identify them.
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