PMID: 9532960Apr 9, 1998Paper

Obligatory "expectations" of expressive timing induced by perception of musical structure

Psychological Research
Bruno H Repp

Abstract

Previous research has shown that, in a task requiring the detection of local deviations from mechanically precise timing in music, the relative detectability of deviations in different positions is closely related to the typical expressive timing pattern musicians produce when playing the music. This result suggests that listeners expect to hear music expressively timed and compensate for the absence of expressive timing. Three new detection experiments shed additional light on the nature of these timing expectations in musically trained listeners. Experiment 1 shows that repeated exposure to an atypically (but not unmusically) timed performance leaves listeners' timing expectations unaffected. Experiment 2 demonstrates that the expectations do not manifest themselves when listeners merely imagine the music in synchrony with a click track. Experiment 3, however, shows that the timing expectations are fully operational when the click track is superimposed on the music. These results reveal timing "expectations" to be an obligatory consequence of the ongoing auditory perception of musical structure.

Citations

Oct 31, 2003·Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance·Peter Q Pfordresher
Dec 22, 2005·Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance·Peter Q Pfordresher
Feb 15, 2001·Journal of Motor Behavior·Bruno H. Repp
Dec 15, 2007·Perception & Psychophysics·Géraldine Lebrun-Guillaud, Barbara Tillmann
Aug 31, 2002·Perception & Psychophysics·Bruno H Repp
May 15, 2013·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·Fiona Manning, Michael Schutz
Aug 7, 2010·Advances in Cognitive Psychology·Bruno H Repp, Meijin Bruttomesso
Dec 3, 2008·Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior·Bjorn H MerkerPatricia Eckerdal
Sep 9, 2015·Frontiers in Psychology·Lorenz Kilchenmann, Olivier Senn
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Oct 28, 2017·Frontiers in Psychology·Olivier SennRichard von Georgi
Jun 10, 2021·PLoS Computational Biology·Jonathan Cannon

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