Publications by authors named "Gerard Breaden Madden"
Background: Emotion regulation is an important part of effective goal pursuit. Functional accounts of emotion regulation suggest that the attainment of challenging goals may be supported by regulating emotions which promote utilitarian over hedonic outcomes. When pursuing the challenging, long-term goal of acquiring expert musical skills and knowledge, musicians may wish to prioritise whichever emotions are most conducive to attaining this goal, even if those emotions are not necessarily positive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Emotion regulation is an important part of optimising performance and successful goal pursuit in practice-based tasks such as making music. Musicians may regulate their own emotions during the course of their musical practice in order to improve their performance and ultimately attain their practice-related goals. The specific emotions they target may depend upon their personality traits but may also relate to the nature of their goal orientation, and the interaction between the two.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: High-speed drumming requires precise control over the timing, velocity, and magnitude of striking movements.
Aim: To examine effects of tempo and expertise on unaccented repetitive drumming performance using 3D motion capture.
Methods: Expert and amateur drummers performed unimanual, unaccented, repetitive drum strikes, using their dominant right hand, at five different tempi.
Emotion regulation literature often emphasizes that individuals regulate their emotions for hedonic reasons. However, there is increasing support for an instrumental approach to emotion regulation. This approach suggests that emotions are regulated if they are believed to be beneficial to the pursuit of personally relevant goals.
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- Drumming requires precise motor control and timing, with specific muscle activation patterns impacting performance efficiency.
- Research shows that expert drummers utilize less co-contraction of antagonist muscles, leading to smoother and more consistent drumming, while increased co-contraction occurs at slower and faster tempos.
- The study highlights that higher drumming expertise is associated with better muscle activation patterns, including a shift to flexor dominance, which contributes to more effective and precise drumming.