Informational constraints on spontaneous visuomotor entrainment

Varlet, Manuel; Bucci, Colleen; Richardson, Michael J.; Schmidt, R. C.

doi:10.1016/j.humov.2015.03.011

Cited by 17 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 93 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The effect of SRC on the stability was weak, only emerging when the sequence was sped up to 400 ms IOI. The results are consistent with the previous reports on visuomotor tracking that found that the difference in stability between the S-R in-phase (compatible) pattern and the S-R antiphase (incompatible) pattern increased progressively with the increasing sequence rate (Varlet, Coey, Schmidt, & Richardson, 2012; Varlet, Bucci, Richardson, & Schmidt, 2015). The influence of sequence rate on SRC effect might reflect the limitation of information transfer rate from the visual system to motor system in the common representational medium.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Separating the effects of stimulus-gravity compatibility and stimulus-response compatibility on visuomotor synchronization.

Zhou

Shangguan

Xing

et al. 2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Synchronizing finger movements with the motion of a visual target is especially successful when tapping downward with a downward-moving stimulus. One explanation is that the directional compatibility of stimulus movement (downward) and synchronized action (downward) enhances the synchronization performance. Another is that the performance is enhanced by the directional compatibility of stimulus movement (downward) and gravity (downward). This study separated effects of stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) and stimulus-gravity compatibility (SGC) by manipulating both the stimulus movement direction and the tapping direction. Results showed a robust effect of SGC on the synchronization performance—that is, more directional compatibility between stimulus movement—and gravity yielded more stable synchronization. SRC also influenced the performance, although this effect was only pronounced in fast sequences. The SGC effect suggests that the brain can exploit prior knowledge of gravity direction to enhance timing in visuomotor synchronization. The SRC effect suggests that the coding of visual events and synchronized actions might operate in a common representational medium, and the influence of sequence rate might reflect the rate limitation of information transfer from the visual system to motor system.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Separating the effects of stimulus-gravity compatibility and stimulus-response compatibility on visuomotor synchronization.

Zhou

Shangguan

Xing

et al. 2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Our motion capture results reinforced one common finding: individuals tend to entrain their movements to a visual rhythm (Clayton, 2007;Kotz et al, 2014;Schmidt et al, 2007;Schmidt & Turvey, 1994;Varlet et al, 2015). But this uninstructed visuomotor entrainment of the head does not appear to be increased by the amplitude of the visual stimulus, at least in a multisensory context such as music performance.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Does Movement Amplitude of a Co-performer Affect Individual Performance in Musical Synchronization?

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Interpersonal coordination in musical ensembles often involves multisensory cues, with visual information about body movements supplementing co-performers’ sounds. Previous research on the influence of movement amplitude of a visual stimulus on basic sensorimotor synchronization has shown mixed results. Uninstructed visuomotor synchronization seems to be influenced by amplitude of a visual stimulus, but instructed visuomotor synchronization is not. While music performance presents a special case of visually mediated coordination, involving both uninstructed (spontaneously coordinating ancillary body movements with co-performers) and instructed (producing sound on a beat) forms of synchronization, the underlying mechanisms might also support rhythmic interpersonal coordination in the general population. We asked whether visual cue amplitude would affect nonmusicians’ synchronization of sound and head movements in a musical drumming task designed to be accessible regardless of musical experience. Given the mixed prior results, we considered two competing hypotheses. H1: higher amplitude visual cues will improve synchronization. H2: different amplitude visual cues will have no effect on synchronization. Participants observed a human-derived motion capture avatar with three levels of movement amplitude, or a still image of the avatar, while drumming along to the beat of tempo-changing music. The moving avatars were always timed to match the music. We measured temporal asynchrony (drumming relative to the music), predictive timing, ancillary movement fluctuation, and cross-spectral coherence of ancillary movements between the participant and avatar. The competing hypotheses were tested using conditional equivalence testing. This method involves using a statistical equivalence test in the event that standard hypothesis tests show no differences. Our results showed no statistical differences across visual cues types. Therefore, we conclude that there is not a strong effect of visual stimulus amplitude on instructed synchronization.

show abstract

“…Past research has provided evidence of synchronization of an individual's limb movements and posture with environmental rhythms in the presence of visual queues and during social settings (Roerdink et al, 2008;Varlet et al, 2011Varlet et al, , 2015. In the present study, the model building process involved testing models with random intercept terms for the effect of group.…”

Section: Effect Of Music and Fractality On Head Swaymentioning

confidence: 98%

Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

González-Sánchez

Żelechowska

Jensenius

2019

Journal of Motor Behavior

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The links between music and human movement have been shown to provide insight into crucial aspects of human's perception, cognition, and sensorimotor systems. In this study, we examined the influence of music on movement during standstill by analyzing head sway fractality, with the aim of further characterizing the correspondences between movement, music, and cognition. Eighty seven participants were asked to stand as still as possible for 500 seconds while being presented with alternating silence and musical stimuli. The auditory stimuli were all rhythmic in nature, ranging from a metronome track to complex electronic dance music. The head position of each participant was captured with an optical motion capture system. Long-range correlations of head movement were estimated by detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). The results support findings from previous work on the movement-inducing effect of music, showing significantly greater head sway and lower head sway fractality during the music stimuli. In addition, the patterns across stimuli suggest that there is a two-way adaptation process, with the music stimuli influencing head sway while at the same time fractality modulated movement responses. The results indicate that fluctuations in head movement in both conditions exhibit long-range correlations, suggesting that the effects of music on head movement depended not only on the value of the most recent measured intervals, but also on the values of those intervals at distant times.

show abstract

Informational constraints on spontaneous visuomotor entrainment

Cited by 17 publications

References 93 publications

Separating the effects of stimulus-gravity compatibility and stimulus-response compatibility on visuomotor synchronization.

Separating the effects of stimulus-gravity compatibility and stimulus-response compatibility on visuomotor synchronization.

Does Movement Amplitude of a Co-performer Affect Individual Performance in Musical Synchronization?

Analysis of the Movement-Inducing Effects of Music through the Fractality of Head Sway during Standstill

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About