Why Movement Is Captured by Music, but Less by Speech: Role of Temporal Regularity

摘要: Music has a pervasive tendency to rhythmically engage our body. In contrast, synchronization with speech is rare. Music’s superiority over in driving movement probably results from isochrony of musical beats, as opposed irregular stresses. Moreover, the presence regular patterns embedded periodicities (i.e., meter) may be critical making music particularly conducive movement. We investigated these possibilities by asking participants synchronize isochronous auditory stimuli (target), while and distractors were presented at one various phase relationships respect target. Exp. 1, familiar excerpts fragments children poetry used distractors. The manipulated terms beat/stress average pitch achieve maximum comparability. 2, well-known songs performed lyrics, on reiterated syllable, spoken all having same meter. perturbed target more than fragments. However, disappeared when shared peculiar temporal structure likely main factor fostering tight coupling between sound