Activating and relaxing music entrains the speed of beat synchronized walking.

Inspired by a theory of embodied music cognition, we investigate whether music can entrain the speed of beat synchronized walking. If human walking is in synchrony with the beat and all musical stimuli have the same duration and the same tempo, then differences in walking speed can only be the resul...

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Main Authors: Marc Leman, Dirk Moelants, Matthias Varewyck, Frederik Styns, Leon van Noorden, Jean-Pierre Martens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3707869?pdf=render