Sensorimotor synchronization: A review of the tapping literature

Repp, Bruno H.

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“…synchronization between an organism and its environment, is often associated with anticipation processes. For instance in tapping task with auditory periodic metronome, a negative mean asynchrony is frequently observed, suggesting that participants tend to anticipate rather than to react to the occurrence of the stimulus [1]. This kind of anticipatory behavior has been widely interpreted as the consequence of the construction of internal models by the participants.…”

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Strong anticipation: complexity matching in interpersonal coordination

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“…Similarly, previous investigations of agency were important for the study of bodily selfconsciousness, but were focussed on agency for actions of fingers (Knoblich and Repp, 2009;Repp, 2005Repp, , 2006Repp and Knoblich, 2007), hands (Daprati et al, 1997;Daprati and Sirigu, 2002;Salomon et al, 2011;van den Bos and Jeannerod, 2002), or arms (Fourneret and Jeannerod, 1998;Franck et al, 2001;Nielsen, 1963;Synofzik et al, 2006). As the participants' body position was kept constant (except for actions of finger, hand, or arm, as indicated in Fig.…”

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Agency, gait and self-consciousness

Kannape

Blanke

2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Agency is an important aspect of bodily self-consciousness, allowing us to separate own movements from those induced by the environment and to distinguish own movements from those of other agents. Unsurprisingly, theoretical frameworks for agency such as central monitoring are closely tied to computational models of sensorimotor control. Until recently agency research has largely focussed on goal-directed movements of the upper limbs. In particular, the influence of performance-related sensory cues and the relevance of prediction signals for agency judgements have been studied through a variety of spatio-temporal mismatches between movement and the sensory consequences of movement. However, agents often perform a different type of movement; highly automated movements that involve the entire body such as walking, cycling, and swimming with potentially different agency mechanisms. Here, we review recent work about agency for full-body movements such as gait, highlighting the effects of performance-related visual and auditory cues on gait agency. Gait movements differ from upper limb actions. Gait is cyclic, more rarely immediately goal-directed, and is generally considered one of the most automatic and unconscious actions. We discuss such movement differences with respect to the functional mechanisms of full-body agency and body-part agency by linking these gait agency paradigms to computational models of motor control. This is followed by a selective review of gait control, locomotion, and models of motor control relying on prediction signals and underlining their relevance for full-body agency.

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“…Synchronized finger tapping to a rhythmic sequence of regular stimuli (sensorimotor synchronization, SMS) is a useful simple task to investigate anticipation and error correction processes in the context of repetitive movements (for comprehensive reviews on SMS studies, see Repp, 2005;Repp and Su, 2013). SMS tasks require the ability to control motor output based on anticipation of regular stimuli rather than reaction to them.…”

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Contingent negative variation (CNV) associated with sensorimotor timing error correction

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Introduction: Detection and subsequent correction of sensorimotor timing errors is fundamental to adaptive behavior. Using scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs), we sought to find ERP components that are predictive of error correction performance during rhythmic movements.Method: Healthy right-handed participants were asked to synchronize their finger taps to a regular tone sequence (every 600 ms), whilst EEG data were continuously recorded. Data from 15 participants were analyzed. Occasional irregularities were built into stimulus presentation timing: 90 ms before (advances: negative shift) or after (delays: positive shift) the expected time point. A tapping condition alternated with a listening condition in which identical stimulus sequence was presented but participants did not tap.Results: Behavioral error correction was observed immediately following a shift, with a degree of over-correction with positive shifts. Our stimulus-locked ERP data analysis revealed, 1) increased auditory N1 amplitude for the positive shift condition and decreased auditory N1 modulation for the negative shift condition; and 2) a second enhanced negativity (N2) in the tapping positive condition, compared with the tapping negative condition. In response-locked epochs, we observed a CNV (contingent negative variation)-like negativity with earlier latency in the tapping negative condition compared with the tapping positive condition. This CNV-like negativity peaked at around the onset of subsequent tapping, with the earlier the peak, the better the error correction performance with the negative shifts while the later the peak, the better the error correction performance with the positive shifts.Discussion: This study showed that the CNV-like negativity was associated with the error correction performance during our sensorimotor synchronization study. Auditory N1 and N2 were differentially involved in negative vs. positive error correction. However, we did not find 3 evidence for their involvement in behavioral error correction. Overall, our study provides the basis from which further research on the role of the CNV in perceptual and motor timing can be developed.

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Sensorimotor synchronization: A review of the tapping literature

Abstract: A unified model of time perception accounts for duration-based and beat-based timing mechanisms.

Cited by 1,205 publications

References 216 publications

Strong anticipation: complexity matching in interpersonal coordination

Strong anticipation: complexity matching in interpersonal coordination

Agency, gait and self-consciousness

Contingent negative variation (CNV) associated with sensorimotor timing error correction

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