Compatibility of motion facilitates visuomotor synchronization.

Hove, Michael J.; Spivey, Michael J.; Krumhansl, Carol L.

doi:10.1037/a0019059

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“…With a stimulus that allows prediction of a collision, such as a finger tapping or a ball bouncing, entrainment can be nearly as good as with auditory input (Hove et al, 2010;Iversen, Patel, Nicodemus, & Emmorey, 2015). Interpersonal situations are also conducive of entrainment, with people entraining to each other spontaneously when walking, swinging their arms, or rocking in rocking chairs (Issartel, Marin, & Cadopi, 2007;Nessler & Gilliland, 2009;Richardson, Marsh, Isenhower, Goodman, & Schmidt, 2007).…”

Section: Beat-matching To Nonauditory Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, as we noted above, a specialized auditory-to-motor pathway has been suggested, which would indicate that beat-matching will be most successful by far when the driving input is auditory. In apparent support of this, the human auditory system appears to greatly surpass the visual system in terms of its ability to match a beat (see Hove, Spivey, & Krumhansl, 2010, for a review).…”

Section: Beat-matching To Nonauditory Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

2016

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Until recently, the literature on rhythmic ability took for granted that only humans are able to synchronize body movements to an external beat-to entrain. This assumption has been undercut by findings of beat-matching in various species of parrots and, more recently, in a sea lion, several species of primates, and possibly horses. This throws open the question of how widespread beat-matching ability is in the animal kingdom. Here we reassess the arguments and evidence for an absence of beat-matching in animals, and conclude that in fact no convincing case against beatmatching in animals has been made. Instead, such evidence as there is suggests that this capacity could be quite widespread. Furthermore, mutual entrainment of oscillations is a general principle of physical systems, both biological and nonbiological, suggesting that entrainment of motor systems by sensory systems may be a default rather than an oddity. The question then becomes, not why a few privileged species are able to beat-match, but why species do not always do sowhy they vary in both spontaneous and learned beatmatching. We propose that when entrainment is not driven by fixed, mandatory connections between input and output (as in the case of, e.g., fireflies entraining to each others' flashes), it depends on voluntary control over, and voluntary or learned coupling of, sensory and motor systems, which can paradoxically lead to apparent failures of entrainment. Among the factors that affect whether an animal will entrain are sufficient control over the motor behavior to be entrained, sufficient perceptual sophistication to extract the entraining beat from the overall sensory environment, and the current cognitive state of the animal, including attention and motivation. The extent of entrainment in the animal kingdom potentially has widespread implications, not only for understanding the roots of human dance, but also for understanding the neural and cognitive architectures of animals.

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Section: Beat-matching To Nonauditory Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Beat-matching To Nonauditory Stimulimentioning

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Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

2016

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“…Empirically, the type of visual stimulus does affect synchronization of movement to visually presented sequences. Hove et al (2010) compared tap synchronization performance to 300-600 ms intervals marked by flashes or different types of moving visual stimuli (e.g., a white bar moving up and down on the screen). Flashes elicited the worst synchronization performance of all tested stimuli.…”

Section: Potential Explanations For Lack Of Observed Visual Beat Percmentioning

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See what I hear? Beat perception in auditory and visual rhythms

2012

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Our perception of time is affected by the modality in which it is conveyed. Moreover, certain temporal phenomena appear to exist in only one modality. The perception of temporal regularity or structure (e.g., the 'beat') in rhythmic patterns is one such phenomenon: visual beat perception is rare. The modality-specificity for beat perception is puzzling, as the durations that comprise rhythmic patterns are much longer than the limits of visual temporal resolution. Moreover, the optimization that beat perception provides for memory of auditory sequences should be equally relevant to visual sequences. Why does beat perception appear to be modality specific? One possibility is that the nature of the visual stimulus plays a role. Previous studies have usually used brief stimuli (e.g., light flashes) to present visual rhythms. In the current study, a rotating line that appeared sequentially in different spatial orientations was used to present a visual rhythm. Discrimination accuracy for visual rhythms and auditory rhythms was compared for different types of rhythms. The rhythms either had a regular temporal structure that previously has been shown to induce beat perception in the auditory modality, or they had an irregular temporal structure without beat-inducing qualities. Overall, the visual rhythms were discriminated more poorly than the auditory rhythms. The beat-based structure, however, increased accuracy for visual as well as auditory rhythms. These results indicate that beat perception can occur in the visual modality and improve performance on a temporal discrimination task, when certain types of stimuli are used.

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“…Repp (2010b) found no difference in SD asy between musical amateurs and nonmusicians (who had no music training at all) who tapped in synchrony with short metronome sequences having IOIs of 500 ms. Likewise, Hove, Spivey, and Krumhansl (2010) did not find any effects of music training in a group of college students who synchronized with an auditory metronome and with various visual stimuli at several tempi (see section 1.4). However, Repp, London, and Keller (2013) did find lower ITI variability in percussionists than in other musicians synchronizing with nonisochronous rhythms.…”

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Sensorimotor synchronization: A review of recent research (2006–2012)

2013

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Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) is the coordination of rhythmic movement with an external rhythm, ranging from finger tapping in time with a metronome to musical ensemble performance. An earlier review (Repp, 2005) covered tapping studies; two additional reviews (Repp, 2006a, b) focused on music performance and on rate limits of SMS, respectively. The present article supplements and extends these earlier reviews by surveying more recent research in what appears to be a burgeoning field. The article comprises four parts, dealing with (1) conventional tapping studies, (2) other forms of moving in synchrony with external rhythms (including dance and nonhuman animals' synchronization abilities), (3) interpersonal synchronization (including musical ensemble performance), and (4) the neuroscience of SMS. It is evident that much new knowledge about SMS has been acquired in the last 7 years.

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Compatibility of motion facilitates visuomotor synchronization.

Cited by 103 publications

References 61 publications

Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

Rhythmic entrainment: Why humans want to, fireflies can’t help it, pet birds try, and sea lions have to be bribed

See what I hear? Beat perception in auditory and visual rhythms

Sensorimotor synchronization: A review of recent research (2006–2012)

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