Subject: Re: Rhythm perception From: Christophe Pallier <pallier(at)LSCP.EHESS.FR> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:34:55 +0100Hum, Is 2) not in contradiction with Carolyn Drake's findings ? (if I am remember correctly, she found that musicians synchronize to higher levels, and tap slower than non musicians). She also find effect of musical culture. See, e.g, http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/999/1/429 -- Christophe Pallier www.pallier.org Michael C. Brady wrote: > I ran an experiment a few years ago where I had musicians and non > musicians (American native English speakers) simply tap along with a > number of basic rhythms. Results were consistent with other findings that: > > 1) People select isolated beats and beats preceding longer periods of > silence as more salient (where they tend to align there taps). > 2) Musicians take longer to start tapping and tend to tap at slightly > faster rates. They are also more consistent in their tapping behaviors and > are more likely to choose to tap in "multi-cycle" patterns. > 3) In a few cases, how a rhythm was initiated had some influence on how > people tapped along, but for the most part how a rhythm was initiated did > not have much to do with selection of tapping behavior. > > There's much more to it. Here's the poster with the details: > > http://www.fluidbase.com/vitae/SMPCposter02.html > > One of these days I would like to run this experiment on people in > non-Western cultures and at different tempos. I anticipate language > backgrounds will influence these results..