Auditory Imagery Shapes Movement Timing and Kinematics: Evidence from a Musical Task

Autor/inn/en	Keller, Peter E.; Dalla Bella, Simone; Koch, Iring
Titel	Auditory Imagery Shapes Movement Timing and Kinematics: Evidence from a Musical Task
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36 (2010) 2, S.508-513 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0017604
Schlagwörter	Feedback (Response); Music; Musicians; Task Analysis; Experiments; Experimental Psychology; Action Research; Investigations; Auditory Stimuli; Observation; Kinesthetic Perception; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Musiker; Aufgabenanalyse; Erprobung; Experimentelle Psychologie; Projektforschung; Untersuchung; Auditive Stimulation; Beobachtung; Kinaesthetic perception; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
Abstract	The role of anticipatory auditory imagery in music-like sequential action was investigated by examining timing accuracy and kinematics using a motion capture system. Musicians responded to metronomic pacing signals by producing three unpaced taps on three vertically aligned keys at the given tempo. Taps triggered tones in two out of three blocked feedback conditions, where key-to-tone mappings were compatible or incompatible in terms of spatial and pitch height. Results indicate that, while timing was most accurate without tones, movements were smaller in amplitude and less forceful (i.e., acceleration prior to impact was lowest) when tones were present. Moreover, timing was more accurate and movements were less forceful with compatible than with incompatible auditory feedback. Observing these effects at the first tap (before tone onset) suggests that anticipatory auditory imagery modulates the temporal kinematics of regularly timed auditory action sequences, like those found in music. Such cross-modal ideomotor processes may function to facilitate planning efficiency and biomechanical economy in voluntary action. (Contains 1 figure and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10