The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among beat perception, error detection, and musical experience. We presented monophonic rhythms using a piano timbre along with two measures of beat perception (Harvard Beat Finding and Interval Test [BFIT] and Goldsmiths Beat Alignment Test) and a measure of melodic error detection. College musicians’ (N = 43) ability to detect rhythm errors was not significantly correlated to their ability to perceive beat alignment (Goldsmiths test) or tempo change (BFIT). Age was related to performance on only one of the measures, the BFIT test. A regression model yielded pitch error detection as the only significant predictor of rhythmic error detection. We suggest that college musicians already possess a requisite ability for beat processing that allows them to perform error detection. The lack of relationship between beat perception and rhythmic error detection is explained by this requisite ability in the population, and we promote future research for pitch and rhythm processing as it relates to rhythm perception or performance.

本研究的目的是检查节拍感知、错误检测和音乐体验之间的关系。我们使用钢琴音色以及两种节拍感知测量（哈佛节拍发现和间隔测试 [BFIT] 和戈德史密斯节拍对齐测试）和旋律错误检测的测量来呈现单音节奏。大学音乐家（N= 43）检测节奏错误的能力与其感知节拍对齐（Goldsmiths测试）或节奏变化（BFIT）的能力没有显着相关性。年龄仅与其中一项措施的表现有关，即 BFIT 测试。回归模型将音高错误检测作为节奏错误检测的唯一重要预测指标。我们建议大学音乐家已经具备必要的节拍处理能力，使他们能够进行错误检测。节拍感知和节奏错误检测之间缺乏关系可以通过人群中的这种必要能力来解释，我们促进对音高和节奏处理的未来研究，因为它与节奏感知或表现有关。