Reliable estimation of internal oscillator properties from a novel, fast-paced tapping paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Rhythmic structure in speech, music, and other auditory signals helps us track, anticipate, and understand the sounds in our environment. The dynamic attending framework proposes that biological systems possess internal rhythms, generated via oscillatory mechanisms, that synchronize with (entrain to) rhythms in the external world. Here, we focused on two properties of internal oscillators: preferred rate, the default rate of an oscillator in the absence of any input, and flexibility, the oscillator's ability to adapt to changes in external rhythmic context. We aimed to develop methods that can reliably estimate preferred rate and flexibility on an individual basis. The experiment was a synchronization-continuation finger tapping paradigm with a unique design: the stimulus rates were finely

SUBMITTER: Kaya E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9705557 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature