Visual Timing of Structured Dance Movements Resembles Auditory Rhythm Perception
Joint Authors
Su, Yi-Huang
Salazar-López, Elvira
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-05-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Temporal mechanisms for processing auditory musical rhythms are well established, in which a perceived beat is beneficial for timing purposes.
It is yet unknown whether such beat-based timing would also underlie visual perception of temporally structured, ecological stimuli connected to music: dance.
In this study, we investigated whether observers extracted a visual beat when watching dance movements to assist visual timing of these movements.
Participants watched silent videos of dance sequences and reproduced the movement duration by mental recall.
We found better visual timing for limb movements with regular patterns in the trajectories than without, similar to the beat advantage for auditory rhythms.
When movements involved both the arms and the legs, the benefit of a visual beat relied only on the latter.
The beat-based advantage persisted despite auditory interferences that were temporally incongruent with the visual beat, arguing for the visual nature of these mechanisms.
Our results suggest that visual timing principles for dance parallel their auditory counterparts for music, which may be based on common sensorimotor coupling.
These processes likely yield multimodal rhythm representations in the scenario of music and dance.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Su, Yi-Huang& Salazar-López, Elvira. 2016. Visual Timing of Structured Dance Movements Resembles Auditory Rhythm Perception. Neural Plasticity،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1112979
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Su, Yi-Huang& Salazar-López, Elvira. Visual Timing of Structured Dance Movements Resembles Auditory Rhythm Perception. Neural Plasticity No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1112979
American Medical Association (AMA)
Su, Yi-Huang& Salazar-López, Elvira. Visual Timing of Structured Dance Movements Resembles Auditory Rhythm Perception. Neural Plasticity. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1112979
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1112979