Perceiving temporal regularity in music

Perceiving temporal regularity in music

Perceiving temporal regularity in music: the role of auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) in probing beat perception.

The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of how the perception of a regular beat in music can be studied in humans adults, human newborns, and nonhuman primates using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Next to a review of the recent literature on the perception of temporal regularity in music, we will discuss in how far ERPs, and especially the component called mismatch negativity (MM...

Perceiving Temporal Properties

Philosophers have long struggled to understand our perceptual experience of temporal properties such as succession, persistence and change. Indeed, strikingly, a number have felt compelled to deny that we enjoy such experience. Philosophical puzzlement arises as a consequence of assuming that, if one experiences succession or temporal structure at all, then one experiences it at a moment. The t...

Perceiving and Describing Event Temporal Dynamics

This paper investigates how people coordinate perceiving and describing event temporal dynamics. Participants viewed animations of fish swimming events and described how the events are related in time. We examined the timing when linguistic descriptions were launched, the linguistic characteristics, and the eye movement properties of participants viewing the fish swimming events. The results sh...

High temporal precision for perceiving event offsets

Characterizing the temporal limits of the human visual system has long been a central goal of vision research. Spanning three centuries of research, temporal order judgments have been used to estimate the temporal precision of visual processing, with nearly all the research focusing on onset asynchrony discriminations. Recent neurophysiological work, however, demonstrated that neural latencies ...