Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement
Burger, B., Thompson, M., Luck, G., Saarikallio, S., & Toiviainen, P. (2014). Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8(November), Article 903. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00903
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Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music
listening are usually spontaneous and range from tapping to full-body dancing. However,
it is still unclear how humans embody musical structures to facilitate entrainment. This
paper describes two experiments, one dealing with period locking to different metrical
levels in full-body movement and its relationships to beat- and rhythm-related musical
characteristics, and the other dealing with phase locking in the more constrained condition
of sideways swaying motions. Expected in Experiment 1 was that music with clear
and strong beat structures would facilitate more period-locked movement. Experiment
2 was assumed to yield a common phase relationship between participants’ swaying
movements and the musical beat. In both experiments optical motion capture was
used to record participants’ movements. In Experiment 1 a window-based period-locking
probability index related to four metrical levels was established, based on acceleration
data in three dimensions. Subsequent correlations between this index and musical
characteristics of the stimuli revealed pulse clarity to be related to periodic movement at
the tactus level, and low frequency flux to mediolateral and anteroposterior movement at
both tactus and bar levels. At faster tempi higher metrical levels became more apparent in
participants’ movement. Experiment 2 showed that about half of the participants showed
a stable phase relationship between movement and beat, with superior-inferior movement
most often being synchronized to the tactus level, whereas mediolateral movement was
rather synchronized to the bar level. However, the relationship between movement phase
and beat locations was not consistent between participants, as the beat locations occurred
at different phase angles of their movements. The results imply that entrainment to music
is a complex phenomenon, involving the whole body and occurring at different metrical
levels.
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