Accenting and detection of timing variations in tone sequences: Different kinds of accents have different effects

Tekman, Hasan Gürkan

doi:10.3758/bf03194417

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“…That pitch accentuation induced lengthening of the intertap intervals is in agreement with research work on perception [14]. That is, if pitch accented intervals are perceived as shorter, tap responses will be delayed so as to be longer.…”

Section: Interval Taps and Pitch Accentssupporting

confidence: 76%

“…The timing adjustment would then compensate for the perceptual bias in order to restore regularity of the rhythmical sequence. Alternatively, a psychoacoustic effect might have created the effect such that the shift from a high-pitch to a low-pitch tone would be perceived as shorter than the reversed transition [14].…”

Section: Interval Taps and Pitch Accentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perceptual research has suggested that participants respond differently during pitch accented as compared to unaccented sequences [14]. Accordingly, the subjective scores were analyzed by means of planned comparisons in order to confirm that accented tone conditions differ from unaccented tone conditions.…”

Section: Global Analysis: Across Intervalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another type of accentuation that is present in temporal sequences such as musical pieces reflects changes in pitch. In this respect, pitch accentuation has been shown to modify perception timing [14]. In particular, listeners act distinctively during accented as compared to unaccented sequences, with the time intervals preceding the pitch accents being perceived as shortened.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The working hypothesis was that pitch accents would affect action timing due to changes in perceived timing of the intervals, as suggested from perception timing data [14], and accordingly would influence the action-perception association. Furthermore, it is hypothesized that this effect would depend on the amount of timing perturbation because of changes in the degree of predictive regulation as well as on the performing hand as a result of dexterity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization

Serrien

Spapé

2010

Neuroscience Letters

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Time is an important parameter in behaviour, especially when synchronization with external events is required. To evaluate the nature of the association between perception and action timing, this study introduced pitch accented tones during performance of a sensorimotor tapping task. Furthermore, regularity of the pacing cues was modified by small (subliminal) or large (conscious) timing perturbations. A global analysis across the intervals showed that repeated accented tones increased the tap-tone asynchrony in the regular (control) and irregular (subliminal) trials but not in the irregular trials with awareness of the perturbations.Asynchrony variability demonstrated no effect of accentuation in the regular and subliminal irregular trials, whereas it increased in the conscious irregular trials. A local analysis of the intervals showed that pitch accentuation lengthened the duration of the tapping responses, but only in the irregular trials with large timing perturbations. These data underline that common timing processes are automatically engaged for perception and action, although this arrangement can be overturned by cognitive intervention. Overall, the findings highlight a flexible association between perception and action timing within a functional information processing framework.

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Section: Interval Taps and Pitch Accentssupporting

confidence: 76%

Section: Interval Taps and Pitch Accentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Global Analysis: Across Intervalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization

Serrien

Spapé

2010

Neuroscience Letters

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Does an auditory perceptual illusion affect on-line auditory action control? The case of (de)accentuation and synchronization

Repp

2005

Exp Brain Res

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Many recent studies have investigated whether visual (spatial) illusions affect visual (spatio-temporal) action control, with results that are far from simple. The present study asks the analogous question with regard to auditory temporal perception and action timing. The auditory illusion chosen for this particular study is the effect of increasing or decreasing the intensity of a tone in a sequence (i.e., accentuation or deaccentuation) on its perceived relative time of occurrence. The motor task is sensorimotor synchronization (finger tapping), specifically the automatic phase correction response to an advanced or delayed tone in a sequence. The strong hypothesis was that (de)accentuation would affect perceptual judgments of the tone's relative time of occurrence, but would have no effect at all on the phase correction response. The results of two experiments, if averaged across participants, confirm these predictions and furthermore suggest that individual perceptual and sensorimotor effects of (de)accentuation are uncorrelated. It is argued that perception and motor control in this case probably rely on different kinds of temporal information: relative versus absolute time of occurrence. Two unexpected findings complicate the results, however: the perceptual illusion was asymmetric, occurring only for delayed tones; and many individual participants did show significant differences in their phase correction response to accented and deaccented tones, although the direction of that difference varied.

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No temporal binding of action consequences to actions in a rhythmic context

Repp

2011

Exp Brain Res

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Temporal binding (TB) refers to a subjective contraction of the time that elapses between an action and a delayed sensory consequence of it. The TB effect has been demonstrated primarily in tasks in which a key press triggers a tone after a short delay and in which participants judge the timing of one or both of these events relative to a visual reference (e.g., a rotating clock hand). In the present Experiments 1 and 2, musicians listened instead to an auditory "clock" (a metronome) and occasionally made a tap that triggered a delayed tone. The task was to judge whether that test tone fell before, on, or after the midpoint of the interval between two metronome tones. In a passive control condition, participants judged test tones but did not tap. The hypothesis was that the test tone would be perceived as occurring earlier in the active than in the passive condition. However, there was no difference in perceptual judgments. Experiment 3 used a visual metronome as the reference but again obtained negative results, despite greater uncertainty of judgments. It is suggested that TB of action consequences to actions does not occur when the reference signal is rhythmic because such a context enables participants (musicians, at least) to perceive and judge the actual time of occurrence of the action-triggered tone.

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Accenting and detection of timing variations in tone sequences: Different kinds of accents have different effects

Cited by 22 publications

References 34 publications

Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization

Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization

Does an auditory perceptual illusion affect on-line auditory action control? The case of (de)accentuation and synchronization

No temporal binding of action consequences to actions in a rhythmic context

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