ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2022
Sounds familiar(?): Expertise with specific musical genres modulates timing perception and micro-level synchronization to auditory stimuli.
Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- All About That Bass Drum? Asynchrony Effects on the Perceived Timing of Compound Musical Sounds.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Universal and Cross-Cultural Variations in Audio-Motor Synchronization Between French and Indian Participants.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Continuous Theta Burst to Supplementary Motor Area Modulates Groove.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Differential effects of child-appropriate music styles on executive function in preschool children: a longitudinal experimental study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Evaluative and emotional routes to audience intention in musical-theater singing: An integrated response architecture.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The influence of vocal expertise on the perception of microrhythm in song and speech.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Beat alignment ability is associated with formal musical training not current music playing.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- What a difference a syllable makes-Rhythmic reading of poetry.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Musical expertise improves the precision of timing perception and performance - but is this expertise generic, or is it tied to the specific style(s) and genre(s) of one's musical training? We asked expert musicians from three musical genres (folk, jazz, and EDM/hip-hop) to align click tracks and tap in synchrony with genre-specific and genre-neutral sound stimuli to determine the perceptual center ("P-center") and variability ("beat bin") for each group of experts. We had three stimulus categories - Organic, Electronic, and Neutral sounds - each of which had a 2 × 2 design of the acoustic factors Attack (fast/slow) and Duration (short/long). We found significant effects of Genre expertise, and a significant interaction for both P-center and P-center variability: folk and jazz musicians synchronize to sounds typical of folk and jazz in a different manner than the EDM/hip-hop producers. The results show that expertise in a specific musical genre affects our low-level perceptions of sounds as well as their affordance(s) for joint action/synchronization. The study provides new insights into the effects of active long-term musical enculturation and skill acquisition on basic sensorimotor synchronization and timing perception, shedding light on the important question of how nature and nurture intersect in the development of our perceptual systems.
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