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Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement

Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music listening are usually spontaneous and range from tapping to full-body dancing. However, it is still unclear how humans embody musical structures to facilitate entrainment. This paper describes two experiments, one deali...

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Autores principales: Burger, Birgitta, Thompson, Marc R., Luck, Geoff, Saarikallio, Suvi H., Toiviainen, Petri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25426051
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00903
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author Burger, Birgitta
Thompson, Marc R.
Luck, Geoff
Saarikallio, Suvi H.
Toiviainen, Petri
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Thompson, Marc R.
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Toiviainen, Petri
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description Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music listening are usually spontaneous and range from tapping to full-body dancing. However, it is still unclear how humans embody musical structures to facilitate entrainment. This paper describes two experiments, one dealing with period locking to different metrical levels in full-body movement and its relationships to beat- and rhythm-related musical characteristics, and the other dealing with phase locking in the more constrained condition of sideways swaying motions. Expected in Experiment 1 was that music with clear and strong beat structures would facilitate more period-locked movement. Experiment 2 was assumed to yield a common phase relationship between participants' swaying movements and the musical beat. In both experiments optical motion capture was used to record participants' movements. In Experiment 1 a window-based period-locking probability index related to four metrical levels was established, based on acceleration data in three dimensions. Subsequent correlations between this index and musical characteristics of the stimuli revealed pulse clarity to be related to periodic movement at the tactus level, and low frequency flux to mediolateral and anteroposterior movement at both tactus and bar levels. At faster tempi higher metrical levels became more apparent in participants' movement. Experiment 2 showed that about half of the participants showed a stable phase relationship between movement and beat, with superior-inferior movement most often being synchronized to the tactus level, whereas mediolateral movement was rather synchronized to the bar level. However, the relationship between movement phase and beat locations was not consistent between participants, as the beat locations occurred at different phase angles of their movements. The results imply that entrainment to music is a complex phenomenon, involving the whole body and occurring at different metrical levels.
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spelling pubmed-42240892014-11-25 Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement Burger, Birgitta Thompson, Marc R. Luck, Geoff Saarikallio, Suvi H. Toiviainen, Petri Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music listening are usually spontaneous and range from tapping to full-body dancing. However, it is still unclear how humans embody musical structures to facilitate entrainment. This paper describes two experiments, one dealing with period locking to different metrical levels in full-body movement and its relationships to beat- and rhythm-related musical characteristics, and the other dealing with phase locking in the more constrained condition of sideways swaying motions. Expected in Experiment 1 was that music with clear and strong beat structures would facilitate more period-locked movement. Experiment 2 was assumed to yield a common phase relationship between participants' swaying movements and the musical beat. In both experiments optical motion capture was used to record participants' movements. In Experiment 1 a window-based period-locking probability index related to four metrical levels was established, based on acceleration data in three dimensions. Subsequent correlations between this index and musical characteristics of the stimuli revealed pulse clarity to be related to periodic movement at the tactus level, and low frequency flux to mediolateral and anteroposterior movement at both tactus and bar levels. At faster tempi higher metrical levels became more apparent in participants' movement. Experiment 2 showed that about half of the participants showed a stable phase relationship between movement and beat, with superior-inferior movement most often being synchronized to the tactus level, whereas mediolateral movement was rather synchronized to the bar level. However, the relationship between movement phase and beat locations was not consistent between participants, as the beat locations occurred at different phase angles of their movements. The results imply that entrainment to music is a complex phenomenon, involving the whole body and occurring at different metrical levels. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4224089/ /pubmed/25426051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00903 Text en Copyright © 2014 Burger, Thompson, Luck, Saarikallio and Toiviainen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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.
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Saarikallio, Suvi H.
Toiviainen, Petri
Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title_full Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title_fullStr Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title_full_unstemmed Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title_short Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
title_sort hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25426051
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00903
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