Practice does not make perfect: Temporal discrimination in musicians with and without dystonia

Owen Killian, Eavan M McGovern, Rebecca Beck, Ines Beiser, Shruti Narasimham, Brendan Quinlivan, Sean O'Riordan, Kristina Simonyan, Michael Hutchinson, Richard B Reilly, Owen Killian, Eavan M McGovern, Rebecca Beck, Ines Beiser, Shruti Narasimham, Brendan Quinlivan, Sean O'Riordan, Kristina Simonyan, Michael Hutchinson, Richard B Reilly

No abstract available

Keywords: adult-onset isolated focal dystonia; endophenotype; musician's dystonia; temporal discrimination.

Conflict of interest statement

Relevant conflicts of interest/financial disclosures: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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FIG. 1

Z scores based on different reference populations: two-dot plots of temporal discrimination threshold (TDT) Z scores across the 3 groups, on the left using the healthy nonmusician control participants (group 3) as the reference population (mean, 32.9 milliseconds; SD, 15.9 milliseconds) and on the right using healthy musician controls (group 2) as the reference population (mean, 23.7 milliseconds; SD, 7.3 milliseconds). The dotted lines define Z scores of ±2.5 SDs relative to the mean of the reference population. Error bars indicate group means and the 95% confidence intervals.