Tapping Into Rate Flexibility: Musical Training Facilitates Synchronization Around Spontaneous Production Rates.

ABSTRACT: The ability to flexibly adapt one's behavior is critical for social tasks such as speech and music performance, in which individuals must coordinate the timing of their actions with others. Natural movement frequencies, also called spontaneous rates, constrain synchronization accuracy between partners during duet music performance, whereas musical training enhances synchronization accuracy. We investigated the combined influences of these factors on the flexibility with which individuals can synchronize their actions with sequences at different rates. First, we developed a novel musical task capable of measuring spontaneous rates in both musicians and non-musicians in which participants tapped the rhythm of a familiar melody while hearing the corresponding melody tones. The novel task was

SUBMITTER: Scheurich R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5897499 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature