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Leah Snapiri, Yael Kaplan, Nir Shalev, Ayelet N. Landau
Rhythmic structure in our daily experience originates from various sources. It is generated endogenously and observed in spontaneous fluctuations in behaviour and performance. It can also arise exogenously from everyday stimuli, such as speech, motion and music. Here we examined how individual differences in…
Anna-Katharina R. Bauer, Freek van Ede, Andrew J. Quinn, Anna C. Nobre
At any given moment our sensory systems receive multiple, often rhythmic, inputs from the environment. Processing of temporally structured events in one sensory modality can guide both behavioural and neural processing of events in other sensory modalities, but whether this occurs remains unclear. Here, we used human…
Anna-Katharina R. Bauer, Freek van Ede, Andrew J. Quinn, Anna C. Nobre
'Anna C. Nobre'] At any given moment our sensory systems receive multiple, often rhythmic, inputs from the environment. Processing of temporally structured events in one sensory modality can guide both behavioral and neural processing of events in other sensory modalities, but whether this occurs remains unclear. Here…
Nai Ding, Aniruddh D. Patel, Lin Chen, Henry Butler + 2 more
Speech and music have structured rhythms, but these rhythms are rarely compared empirically. This study, based on large corpora, quantitatively characterizes and compares a major acoustic correlate of spoken and musical rhythms, the slow (0.25-32 Hz) temporal modulations in sound intensity. We show that the speech…
Paige Hickey, Annie Barnett-Young, Aniruddh D. Patel, Elizabeth Race + 1 more
'Jyrki Ahveninen'] Accumulating evidence suggests that rhythmic temporal structures in the environment influence memory formation. For example, stimuli that appear in synchrony with the beat of background, environmental rhythms are better remembered than stimuli that appear out-of-synchrony with the beat. This rhythmic…
Annika Notbohm, Christoph S. Herrmann
Previous studies have shown that alpha oscillations (8-13 Hz) in human electroencephalogram (EEG) modulate perception via phase-dependent inhibition. If entrained to an external driving force, inhibition maxima and minima of the oscillation appear more distinct in time and make potential phase-dependent perception…
Malte Wöstmann, Troby Ka-Yan Lui, Kai-Hendrik Friese, Jens Kreitewolf + 2 more
Recent research posits that the cognitive system samples target stimuli in a rhythmic fashion, characterized by target detection fluctuating at frequencies of ∼3–8 Hz. Besides prioritized encoding of targets, a key cognitive function is the protection of working memory from distractor intrusion. Here, we test to which…
Tatsuya Daikoku, Usha Goswami
Rhythm is essential in music. It is formed by the hierarchical structure of events such as notes, beat, accent and grouping. The core acoustic correlates of these hierarchical rhythmic events, however, remain unknown. This study examined the slow (<40 Hz) temporal modulation structure of music by applying two modeling…
Oliver Weede
This paper addresses a question about music cognition: how do we derive polymetric structures. A preference rule system is presented which is implemented into a drum computer. The preference rule system allows inferring local polymetric structures, like two-over-three and threeover-two. By analyzing the micro-timing of…
Talya Shlesinger-Arad, Flor Kusnir, Leah Snapiri, Nir Shalev + 1 more
Rhythms are everywhere – we encounter them daily within our environment and produce them regularly through our movements, speech and sensory systems. In both cognitive and clinical contexts, external rhythms have been shown to enhance performance when they are aligned with, predict, or entrain stimuli onsets or…
Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Molly J. Henry, Manuel S. Malmierca
Neural tracking (entrainment) of auditory rhythms enhances perception. We previously demonstrated that transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) can enhance or suppress entrainment to rhythmic auditory stimuli, depending on the timing between the electrical and auditory signals, although tACS effects are…
Simon Linke, Rolf Bader, Robert Mores
When musicians perform in an ensemble, synchronizing to a mutual pace is the foundation of their musical interaction. Clock generators, e.g., metronomes, or drum machines, might assist such synchronization, but these means, in general, will also distort this natural, self-organized, inter-human synchronization process.…
Vani G. Rajendran, Sundeep Teki, Jan W.H. Schnupp
Title: Highlights 1. • What music psychology reveals about the natural bounds of human temporal processing. 2. • Psychoacoustics of beat perception. 3. • Neurophysiology of beat perception. 4. • Predictable timing in auditory perception. 5. • Neural mechanisms of timing.
Jessica L. Slater, Matthew C. Tate
Everyday human behavior relies upon extraordinary feats of coordination within the brain. In this perspective paper, we argue that the rich temporal structure of music provides an informative context in which to investigate how the brain coordinates its complex activities in time, and how that coordination can be…
Peter Cariani, Janet M. Baker
This paper focuses on possible time-domain neurocomputational mechanisms for short-term anticipatory processes. Here we present a simple, signal processing functional model of how short-term rhythmic pattern expectancies could be computed on the fly using recurrent neural timing nets (RTNs). The model is inspired by…
Robert St. Clair, Jesse Berezovsky
We develop a model of musical rhythm and meter based on optimizing the trade-off between human psychological preferences for perceiving repeated patterns in time with a desire for variety and complexity. By mapping these competing preferences onto analogous quantities in statistical physics, we define an effective free…
Iroro Orife
The goal of this thesis was to implement a tool that, given a digital audio input, can extract and represent rhythm and musical time. The purpose of the tool is to help develop better models of rhythm for real-time computer based performance and composition. This analysis tool, Riddim, uses Independent Subspace…
Eyal Buks
The current study is motivated by some observations of highly nonlinear dynamical effects in biological auditory systems [1]. We examine the hypothesis that one of the underlying mechanisms responsible for the observed nonlinearity is self-excited oscillation (SEO). According to this hypothesis the detection and…
Zhongju Yuan, Geraint Wiggins, Dick Botteldooren
—Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of human behaviour, present from infancy and deeply embedded in cultural practices. Rhythm anticipation is a spontaneous cognitive process that typically occurs before the onset of actual beats. While most research in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence has focused on…