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Synchronizing human movement with an external clock source

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Temporal information processing was studied in humans attempting to tap a key in synchrony with a metronome whose base period was subjected to subliminal random changes. Statistical measures of the sequential timing of metronome and key-tap events were compared with similar time series generated by computer-simulated models of synchronization strategies. From this analysis, synchronization appears to be a sensory-dependent second-order recursive process indexed and stabilized by a combination of internal and external resetting events, with at least two independent sources of timing error.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, 90089-1451, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    D. Hary & G. P. Moore

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Hary, D., Moore, G.P. Synchronizing human movement with an external clock source. Biol. Cybernetics 56, 305–311 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319511

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