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Training and testing music skills in a boy with autism using a matching-to-sample format

✍ Scribed by Erik Arntzen; Lill-Beathe Halstadtro; Eli Bjerke; Monica Halstadtro


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
257 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
1072-0847

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Abstract

A 16‐year old boy with autism was taught music skills using a matching to sample procedure. He was trained and subsequently tested for the formation of four 4‐member classes, including different visual music stimuli, and Norwegian and Vietnamese labels for different major and minor chords. Four different stimuli sets were trained both in one‐to‐many (OTM) and many‐to‐one (MTO) training structures. Further, we explored if the reaction times to comparison stimuli increased from training to testing. Results showed that the participant formed equivalence classes with music relations. Furthermore, there were small differences only between OTM and MTO with respect to stimulus equivalence responding. The reaction times to comparison stimuli increased from training to testing, and were most pronounced for the equivalence trials. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.