Dyad practice facilitates motor learning in music

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¹ Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology, College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA. tristan.loria@wsu.edu.
² Music and Health Research Collaboratory, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Kinesiology, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
⁴ Technology and Performance Integration Research Lab, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Division of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Tristan Loria et al. Sci Rep. 2026.

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. 2026 Mar 16.

doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-43485-w. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Kinesiology and Educational Psychology, College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA. tristan.loria@wsu.edu.
² Music and Health Research Collaboratory, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Department of Kinesiology, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
⁴ Technology and Performance Integration Research Lab, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Division of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

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Declarations. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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