Vestibular influence on auditory metrical interpretation.
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| year | 2008 |
| current status | published |
| journal | Brain and Cognition |
| volume | 67 |
| pages | 94-102 |
| reference | Phillips-Silver, J. & Trainor, LJ. (2008) Vestibular influence on auditory metrical interpretation. Brain and Cognition , vol. 67, pp. 94-102 |
Abstract
When we move to music we feel the beat, and this feeling can shape the sound we hear. Previous studies have shown that when people listen to a metrically ambiguous rhythm pattern, moving the body on a certain beat—adults, by actively bouncing themselves in synchrony with the experimenter, and babies, by being bounced passively in the experimenter's arms—can bias their auditory metrical representation so that they interpret the pattern in a corresponding metrical form (Phillips-Silver & Trainor, 2005; 2007). The present studies show that in adults, as well as in infants, metrical encoding of rhythm can be biased by passive motion. Furthermore, because movement of the head alone affected auditory encoding whereas movement of the legs alone did not, we propose that vestibular input may play a key role in the effect of movement on auditory rhythm processing. We discuss possible cortical and subcortical sites for the integration of auditory and vestibular inputs that may underlie the interaction between movement and auditory metrical rhythm perception.
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