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Keeping the Beat: A Large Sample Study of Bouncing and Clapping to Music

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  • Pauline Tranchant
  • Dominique T Vuvan
  • Isabelle Peretz

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The vast majority of humans move in time with a musical beat. This behaviour has been mostly studied through finger-tapping synchronization. Here, we evaluate naturalistic synchronization responses to music–bouncing and clapping–in 100 university students. Their ability to match the period of their bounces and claps to those of a metronome and musical clips varying in beat saliency was assessed. In general, clapping was better synchronized with the beat than bouncing, suggesting that the choice of a specific movement type is an important factor to consider in the study of sensorimotor synchronization processes. Performance improved as a function of beat saliency, indicating that beat abstraction plays a significant role in synchronization. Fourteen percent of the population exhibited marked difficulties with matching the beat. Yet, at a group level, poor synchronizers showed similar sensitivity to movement type and beat saliency as normal synchronizers. These results suggest the presence of quantitative rather than qualitative variations when losing the beat.

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  • Pauline Tranchant & Dominique T Vuvan & Isabelle Peretz, 2016. "Keeping the Beat: A Large Sample Study of Bouncing and Clapping to Music," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-19, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0160178
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160178
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    1. Raoul Huys & Breanna E Studenka & Nicole L Rheaume & Howard N Zelaznik & Viktor K Jirsa, 2008. "Distinct Timing Mechanisms Produce Discrete and Continuous Movements," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 4(4), pages 1-8, April.
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