ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
Moving to the Beat and Singing are Linked in Humans.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Temporal relationship between dancer's body movements and music beats in classical ballet.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Music as a social instrument: a brief historical and conceptual perspective.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Review
- Coordination of voice, hands and feet in rhythm and beat performance.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Interpersonal synchrony when singing in a choir.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Commentary: A Tablet-Based Assessment of Rhythmic Ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- People with Parkinson disease with and without freezing of gait respond similarly to external and self-generated cues.Gait & posture · 2020Article
- Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
- Effects of metronomic sounds on a self-paced tapping task in budgerigars and humans.Current zoology · 2019Article
- A Tablet-Based Assessment of Rhythmic Ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- Internal cueing improves gait more than external cueing in healthy adults and people with Parkinson disease.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
The abilities to sing and to move to the beat of a rhythmic auditory stimulus emerge early during development, and both engage perceptual, motor, and sensorimotor processes. These similarities between singing and synchronization to a beat may be rooted in biology. Patel (2008) has suggested that motor synchronization to auditory rhythms may have emerged during evolution as a byproduct of selection for vocal learning ("vocal learning and synchronization hypothesis"). This view predicts a strong link between vocal performance and synchronization skills in humans. Here, we tested this prediction by asking occasional singers to tap along with auditory pulse trains and to imitate familiar melodies. Both vocal imitation and synchronization skills were measured in terms of accuracy and precision or consistency. Accurate and precise singers tapped more in the vicinity of the pacing stimuli (i.e., they were more accurate) than less accurate and less precise singers. Moreover, accurate singers were more consistent when tapping to the beat. These differences cannot be ascribed to basic motor skills or to motivational factors. Individual differences in terms of singing proficiency and synchronization skills may reflect the variability of a shared sensorimotor translation mechanism.
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