Haskins Publications

Number	1459
Year	2007
Drawer	26
Entry Date	05/12/2008
Authors	Repp, B.H. & Doggett, R.
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Publication	Music Perception, V. 24,No. 4, pp. 367-376.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1459.pdf
Abstract	When Nonmusicians Tap with isochronous auditory tone sequences, the taps typically precede the tone onsets. However, when the tone inter-onsets. However, when he tone inter-onset interval (IOI) is increased beyond 2 s, an increasing proportion of taps follows the tone onsets by 150 ms or more. Such responses indicate reactions rather than anticipations, had they have been interpreted as reflecting a rate limit of synchronization related to a temporal limit of auditory working memory. In the present study, musicians and nonmusicians were asked to synchronize their taps with sequences whose IOIs ranged from 1000 to 3500 ms. Nonmusicians showed much larger anticipation errors and higher variability but actually fewer reactive responses than musicians. No clear landmarks of a rate limit for synchronization were observed.
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