Sensorimotor synchronization: Motor responses to pseudoregular auditory patterns

Franěk, Marek; Mates, J.; Radil, T; Beck, Karin; Pöppel, Ernst

doi:10.3758/bf03211667

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“…The suggestion that produced time intervals are based on previous intervals rather than on an internal clock corresponds intuitively better to the flexibility of human timing, as is known from music, sports, and everyday activities, in which adjustment to temporal change can be both rapid and accurate. This flexibility includes acting and responding to continuously changing intervals (Collier and Wright 1995;Franek et al 1994;Madison 2000a), a type of performance for which an intrinsically isochronous open-loop mechanism would seem unsuitable.…”

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Fractal modeling of human isochronous serial interval production

Madison

2004

Biological Cybernetics

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The Hurst exponent (H) was estimated for series of 256 time intervals produced by human participants, collected in 5 sessions performed on different days. Each series was obtained during the continuation phase following synchronization with 25 isochronous intervals generated by a computer and presented through headphones. Dispersional analysis yielded estimates of H > 0.5. These were sufficiently stable to yield statistically significant differences between participants and between each target interval duration (0.5, 0.8, 1.1, and 1.5 s). The results indicate that variability in isochronous serial interval production (ISIP) can be modeled as fractional Gaussian noise, which corroborates and qualifies previous research indicating positive serial dependency or long memory in ISIP data in terms of drift and 1/ f noise characteristics. It is concluded that ISIP is a more complex process than is assumed by influential timing models and theories, and that realistic modeling of human timing must account for nonlinear variability patterns.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Fractal modeling of human isochronous serial interval production

Madison

2004

Biological Cybernetics

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“…We tested a group of musicians. In studies of timing, the performance of musicians has been compared with that of non-musicians, with the result that musicians often perform better overall (Billon and Semjen 1995;Franek et al 1991Franek et al , 1994Kincaid et al 2002). On the basis of previous work one might expect musicians, as compared to non-musicians, to show superior ability in judging temporal order.…”

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The Crossed-Hands Deficit in Tactile Temporal-Order Judgments: The Effect of Training

Craig

Belser

2006

Perception

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Several recent studies have shown that judgments of temporal order for tactile stimuli presented to the two hands are greatly affected by crossing the hands. The size of the threshold for judging temporal order may be up to four times larger with the hands crossed as compared to the hands uncrossed. The results from these recent studies suggest that with crossed hands, contrary to many situations involving the integration of tactile and proprioceptive information, subjects have difficulty in adjusting their perception of tactile inputs to correspond with the spatial positions of the hands. In the present study we examined the effect of training in judging temporal order on the size of this crossed-hands deficit--the difference in the thresholds for temporal-order judgments when the hands are crossed and uncrossed. All training procedures produced significant declines in the size of the deficit. With training, the difference between crossed-hands and uncrossed-hands temporal-order thresholds dropped from several hundred milliseconds to as little as 19 ms. A group of percussionists with experience in playing with crossed hands showed the same crossed-hands effects as non-musicians. The results were consistent in showing that the crossed-hands deficit was never completely eliminated but was greatly reduced with training. The implication is that subjects are able to adjust to the crossed-hands posture with modest amounts of training. The results are discussed in terms of the explanations that have been offered for the crossed-hands deficit.

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“…Michon (1967) used linear changes in IOI duration and found that participants adjusted their ITIs in a stepwise fashion, suggesting that they waited to adjust their internal timekeeper period until a tempo change was detectable and relied on phase correction between period adjustments. This strategy was not evident in other studies, however, in which either very short sequences (Franek, Mates, Radil, Beck, & Pöppel, 1994) or very gradual tempo changes (Madison & Merker, 2005) were used. Data from another recent study (Schulze et al, 2005), however, are suggestive in that regard.…”

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confidence: 99%