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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 370, Issue 1, 3 November 2004, Pages 69-73
Neuroscience Letters

Human sensorimotor tracking of continuous subliminal deviations from isochrony

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Abstract

We show that people continuously react to time perturbations in the range 3–96 ms in otherwise isochronous sound sequences. Musically trained and untrained participants were asked to synchronize with a sequence of sounds, and these two groups performed almost equally below the threshold for conscious detection of the perturbations. Above this threshold the motor reactions accounted for a larger proportion of the stimulus deviations in musically trained participants.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by a grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

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