Presentation 2018-03-13
Rhythm and Stress Patterns Do not Affect Tempo-Keeping Performance of a Finger Tapping Task
Ryosei Nagashima, Yutaka Sakaguchi,
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Abstract(in English) The tempo of music performance often drifts (in most cases, it is accelerated) irrespective of the players’ intention. Though the characteristics of this phenomenon have been thoroughly investigated using the finger tapping task in the laboratory, most of these studies dealt with tapping with a fixed interval; few studies have considered tapping with different rhythm and stress patterns, which are both important factors of music performance. In the present study, we asked how different rhythm and stress patterns affected the tempo-keeping performance using a synchronization-continuation tapping task. We observed that for some rhythm and stress patterns, the tempo was significantly accelerated or decelerated in the tempo condition where acceleration/deceleration hardly occurred with the fixed-interval tapping. The present finding suggests that the process for generating/executing rhythm and stress patterns could interfere with the tempo-keeping mechanism in our brain.
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Keyword(in English) Tempo-Keeping Task / Music Performance / Rhythm Pattern / Stress Pattern
Paper # NC2017-78
Date of Issue 2018-03-06 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee MBE / NC
Conference Date 2018/3/13(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) ME, general
Chair Kazuki Nakajima(Univ. of Toyama) / Masafumi Hagiwara(Keio Univ.)
Vice Chair Masaki Kyoso(TCU) / Yutaka Hirata(Chubu Univ.)
Secretary Masaki Kyoso(Toyama Pref. Univ.) / Yutaka Hirata(Kindai Univ.)
Assistant Kim Juhyon(Univ. of Toyama) / Takumi Kobayashi(YNU) / Yoshihisa Shinozawa(Keio Univ.) / Keiichiro Inagaki(Chubu Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics / Technical Committee on Neurocomputing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Rhythm and Stress Patterns Do not Affect Tempo-Keeping Performance of a Finger Tapping Task
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Tempo-Keeping Task
Keyword(2) Music Performance
Keyword(3) Rhythm Pattern
Keyword(4) Stress Pattern
1st Author's Name Ryosei Nagashima
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Yutaka Sakaguchi
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
Date 2018-03-13
Paper # NC2017-78
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) NC-508
Page pp.pp.63-68(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-03-06 (NC)