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Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit
Why do some people have problems “feeling the beat”? Here we investigate participants with congenital impairments in musical rhythm perception and production. A web-based version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia was used to screen for difficulties with rhythmic processing in a large s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24550854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00018 |
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author | Launay, Jacques Grube, Manon Stewart, Lauren |
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description | Why do some people have problems “feeling the beat”? Here we investigate participants with congenital impairments in musical rhythm perception and production. A web-based version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia was used to screen for difficulties with rhythmic processing in a large sample and we identified three “dysrhythmic” individuals who scored below cut-off for the rhythm subtest, but not the pitch-based subtests. Follow-up testing in the laboratory was conducted to characterize the nature of both rhythm perception and production deficits in these dysrhythmic individuals. We found that they differed from control participants when required to synchronize their tapping to an external stimulus with a metrical pulse, but not when required to tap spontaneously (with no external stimulus) or to tap in time to an isochronous stimulus. Dysrhythmics exhibited a general tendency to tap at half the expected tempo when asked to synchronize to the beat of strongly metrical rhythms. These results suggest that the individuals studied here did not have motor production problems, but suffer from a selective rhythm perception deficit that influences the ability to entrain to metrical rhythms. |
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spelling | pubmed-39139982014-02-18 Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit Launay, Jacques Grube, Manon Stewart, Lauren Front Psychol Psychology Why do some people have problems “feeling the beat”? Here we investigate participants with congenital impairments in musical rhythm perception and production. A web-based version of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia was used to screen for difficulties with rhythmic processing in a large sample and we identified three “dysrhythmic” individuals who scored below cut-off for the rhythm subtest, but not the pitch-based subtests. Follow-up testing in the laboratory was conducted to characterize the nature of both rhythm perception and production deficits in these dysrhythmic individuals. We found that they differed from control participants when required to synchronize their tapping to an external stimulus with a metrical pulse, but not when required to tap spontaneously (with no external stimulus) or to tap in time to an isochronous stimulus. Dysrhythmics exhibited a general tendency to tap at half the expected tempo when asked to synchronize to the beat of strongly metrical rhythms. These results suggest that the individuals studied here did not have motor production problems, but suffer from a selective rhythm perception deficit that influences the ability to entrain to metrical rhythms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3913998/ /pubmed/24550854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00018 Text en Copyright © 2014 Launay, Grube and Stewart. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Launay, Jacques Grube, Manon Stewart, Lauren Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title | Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title_full | Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title_fullStr | Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title_full_unstemmed | Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title_short | Dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
title_sort | dysrhythmia: a specific congenital rhythm perception deficit |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24550854 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00018 |
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