Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech
The rhythmic nature of speech may recruit entrainment mechanisms in a manner similar to music. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that individuals who display a severe deficit in synchronizing their taps to a musical beat (called beat-deaf here) would also experience difficulties entrain...
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| description | The rhythmic nature of speech may recruit entrainment mechanisms in a manner similar to music. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that individuals who display a severe deficit in synchronizing their taps to a musical beat (called beat-deaf here) would also experience difficulties entraining to speech. The beat-deaf participants and their matched controls were required to align taps with the perceived regularity in the rhythm of naturally spoken, regularly spoken, and sung sentences. The results showed that beat-deaf individuals synchronized their taps less accurately than the control group across conditions. In addition, participants from both groups exhibited more inter-tap variability to natural speech than to regularly spoken and sung sentences. The findings support the idea that acoustic periodicity is a major factor in domain-general entrainment to both music and speech. Therefore, a beat-finding deficit may affect periodic auditory rhythms in general, not just those for music. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca2b9d661c3a424c8e065d5f3fdf12332022-12-22T00:26:17ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252019-07-019715710.3390/brainsci9070157brainsci9070157Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to SpeechMarie-Élaine Lagrois0Caroline Palmer1Isabelle Peretz2International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, CanadaInternational Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, CanadaInternational Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, CanadaThe rhythmic nature of speech may recruit entrainment mechanisms in a manner similar to music. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that individuals who display a severe deficit in synchronizing their taps to a musical beat (called beat-deaf here) would also experience difficulties entraining to speech. The beat-deaf participants and their matched controls were required to align taps with the perceived regularity in the rhythm of naturally spoken, regularly spoken, and sung sentences. The results showed that beat-deaf individuals synchronized their taps less accurately than the control group across conditions. In addition, participants from both groups exhibited more inter-tap variability to natural speech than to regularly spoken and sung sentences. The findings support the idea that acoustic periodicity is a major factor in domain-general entrainment to both music and speech. Therefore, a beat-finding deficit may affect periodic auditory rhythms in general, not just those for music.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/7/157beat deafnessmusicspeechentrainmentsensorimotor synchronizationbeat-finding impairmentbrain oscillations |
| spellingShingle | Marie-Élaine Lagrois Caroline Palmer Isabelle Peretz Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech Brain Sciences beat deafness music speech entrainment sensorimotor synchronization beat-finding impairment brain oscillations |
| title | Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech |
| title_full | Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech |
| title_fullStr | Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech |
| title_short | Poor Synchronization to Musical Beat Generalizes to Speech |
| title_sort | poor synchronization to musical beat generalizes to speech |
| topic | beat deafness music speech entrainment sensorimotor synchronization beat-finding impairment brain oscillations |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/7/157 |
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