ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Spontaneous Motor Tempo: Investigating Psychological, Chronobiological, and Demographic Factors in a Large-Scale Online Tapping Experiment.
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- Distinct Rhythmic Competencies Identified via Internet-Based Assessment.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- From Finger Taps to Footsteps: Gait as a Model for Investigating and Training Rhythmic Abilities.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- The Task Dependency of Spontaneous Rhythmic Performance in Movements Beyond Established Biomechanical Models: An Inertial Sensor-Based Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- No significant relationship found between spontaneous motor tempo, heartbeat, and individual alpha frequency: an analysis of internal tempos.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Towards a neurodevelopmental cognitive perspective of temporal processing.Communications biology · 2024Review
- Exploring the accuracy of musical tempo memory: The effects of reproduction method, reference tempo, and musical expertise.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Spontaneous rates exhibit high intra-individual stability across movements involving different biomechanical systems and cognitive demands.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Tapping to drumbeats in an online experiment changes our perception of time and expressiveness.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Pleasantness makes a good time: musical consonance shapes interpersonal synchronization in dyadic joint action.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Longitudinal analysis of social isolation effects on finger tapping in the Blursday database.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Spontaneous motor tempo over the course of a week: the role of the time of the day, chronotype, and arousal.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Crossmodal interference on counting performance: Evidence for shared attentional resources.PloS one · 2023Article
- Which factors modulate spontaneous motor tempo? A systematic review of the literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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- Reliable estimation of internal oscillator properties from a novel, fast-paced tapping paradigm.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Endogenous rhythms influence musicians' and non-musicians' interpersonal synchrony.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Spontaneous motor tempo contributes to preferred music tempo regardless of music familiarity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The spontaneous motor tempo (SMT) describes the pace of regular and repeated movements such as hand clapping or walking. It is typically measured by letting people tap with their index finger at a pace that feels most natural and comfortable to them. A number of factors have been suggested to influence the SMT, such as age, time of the day, arousal, and potentially musical experience. This study aimed at investigating the effects of these factors in a combined and out-of-the-lab context by implementing the finger-tapping paradigm in an online experiment using a self-developed web application. Due to statistical multimodality in the distribution of participants' SMT (
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