节奏是音乐中的固定速度，听觉通道与触觉通道都可以传递节奏讯号，对特定的振动频率作出反应。多种感觉通道同时呈现刺激可以触发多感官效益，提高学习效率。本研究通过让音乐初学者进行节奏辨别任务和节奏学习任务，以考察听觉与触觉输入的时间顺序在音乐节奏学习中的作用。结果发现，辨别节奏时，接受多通道刺激要比单通道的反应时间短。触觉输入在听觉输入之前呈现，辨别节奏的准确率更高。触觉输入在听觉输入之前呈现，学习节奏的正确率最高，并且与标准节奏最为接近。这表明听觉与触觉输入的时间差异对音乐节奏学习有影响，触觉先于听觉输入时，要比其他时间差异类型更能促进对音乐节奏的学习。在歌唱学习、乐器演奏、音乐游戏等领域有着非常广阔的应用前景。

Rhythm refers to a fixed speed in music. Rhythmic signals can be transmitted via auditory sense and touch, the latter of which can also respond to the specific vibration frequency. The multi-sense channels can simultaneously stimulate multi-sense benefits and improve the learning efficiency. In this research, beginners of music learning are required to distinguish and learn rhythms to examine the role of the auditory sense and tactile input time sequence on music rhythm learning. Results show that the multi-channel stimulation takes shorter time to respond compared with the single-channel stimulation in distinguishing rhythms. The tactile input is presented before the auditory sense input, so the former demonstrates a higher accuracy in distinguishing and learning rhythms. Besides, the rhythm learning outcome is the closest to the standard rhythm. This suggests that time difference between auditory input and tactile input can influence music rhythm learning. When the tactile input comes before the auditory input, the time difference can more efficiently promote music rhythm learning compared with other time differences. This rule has promising prospects to be widely applied to singing learning, performance of music instruments, music games, etc.