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29-01-2018 | Original Article

Your move or mine? Music training and kinematic compatibility modulate synchronization with self- versus other-generated dance movement

Auteurs: Yi-Huang Su, Peter E. Keller

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 1/2020

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Abstract

Motor simulation has been implicated in how musicians anticipate the rhythm of another musician’s action to achieve interpersonal synchronization. Here, we investigated whether similar mechanisms govern a related form of rhythmic action: dance. We examined (1) whether synchronization with visual dance stimuli was influenced by movement agency, (2) whether music training modulated simulation efficiency, and (3) what cues were relevant for simulating the dance rhythm. Participants were first recorded dancing the basic Charleston steps paced by a metronome, and later in a synchronization task they tapped to the rhythm of their own point-light dance stimuli, stimuli of another physically matched participant or one matched in movement kinematics, and a quantitative average across individuals. Results indicated that, while there was no overall “self advantage” and synchronization was generally most stable with the least variable (averaged) stimuli, motor simulation was driven—indicated by high tap-beat variability correlations—by familiar movement kinematics rather than morphological features. Furthermore, music training facilitated simulation, such that musicians outperformed non-musicians when synchronizing with others’ movements but not with their own movements. These findings support action simulation as underlying synchronization in dance, linking action observation and rhythm processing in a common motor framework.
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In total 31 participants were recruited for the dance session, who were later invited to take part in several follow-up experiments. 22 of them took part in the present tapping experiment. Participants signed up for the follow-up experiments voluntarily without being pre-selected.
 
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Note that the musician group here were amateurs and were defined according to looser criteria than in studies investigating highly skilled experts (e.g., Karpati et al., 2016).
 
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For those who had taken part in the tapping experiment, the stimulus pairs involving their own movement accounted for 4 out of 72 combinations they rated. As the mean rating for each combination was calculated from the response across 20 observers, it was unlikely that the mean score for a given stimulus pair could have been swayed by one rater who had seen his/her own movement in that pair. In addition, participants for the rating task were not informed about the agency of the movement stimuli.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Your move or mine? Music training and kinematic compatibility modulate synchronization with self- versus other-generated dance movement
Auteurs
Yi-Huang Su
Peter E. Keller
Publicatiedatum
29-01-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-0987-6

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