Although it has been documented that musical training enhances multisensory integration, there is not yet a consensus as to how musical training influences the visual dominance effect in sensory dominance. The present study adopted the Colavita visual dominance paradigm, presenting auditory stimuli concurrent with visual stimuli, to investigate the visual dominance effect between music majors and nonmusic majors and compared the reaction time and response proportion of the two kinds of participants in the bimodal trials. The results showed that the proportion of simultaneous responses in bimodal trials of music majors is higher than that of nonmusic majors; the nonmusic majors show a greater difference between the proportion of “Visual-Auditory” trials and “Auditory-Visual” trials compared with the music majors; the ΔRT of the two responses of the nonsimultaneous bimodal trials of nonmusic majors is longer than that of music majors. The results indicated that musically trained individuals have an enhanced ability to bind visual and auditory information and show a lesser Colavita effect, that is, a reduced visual dominance effect, than their nonmusic major peers. We conclude that musical training extends beyond the field of vision or auditory domain, improves audiovisual integration, and reduces the visual dominance effect.

尽管有文献证明音乐训练可以增强多感官整合，但对于音乐训练如何影响感官优势中的视觉优势效应，目前还没有达成共识。本研究采用 Colavita 视觉优势范式，将听觉刺激与视觉刺激同时呈现，研究音乐专业和非音乐专业学生之间的视觉优势效应，并比较了双峰试验中两种参与者的反应时间和反应比例。结果表明，音乐专业双峰试验中同时反应的比例高于非音乐专业；与音乐专业相比，非音乐专业的“视觉-听觉”试验和“听觉-视觉”试验的比例差异更大；非音乐专业非同时双峰试验的两个反应的ΔRT长于音乐专业。结果表明，与非音乐专业人士相比，受过音乐训练的人结合视觉和听觉信息的能力增强，并且表现出较小的 Colavita 效应，即视觉优势效应降低。我们得出结论，音乐训练超出了视野或听觉领域，提高了视听整合，并降低了视觉优势效应。