Fingers phrase music differently: trial-to-trial variability in piano scale playing and auditory perception reveal motor chunking

We investigated how musical phrasing and motor sequencing interact to yield timing patterns in the conservatory students' playing piano scales. We propose a novel analysis method that compared the measured note onsets to an objectively regular scale fitted to the data. Subsequently, we segment...

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Main Authors: Floris Tijmen Van Vugt, Hans-Christian eJabusch, Eckart eAltenmüller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00495/full