Entrainment: A Domain General Cognitive Timing Mechanism?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261186483_Entrainment_A_Domain_General_Cognitive_Timing_Mechanism

Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 03/2014; 126:24–26.

Entrainment: A Domain General Cognitive Timing Mechanism?
Sonja A. Kotz, Virginia B. Penhune, Molly Henry, Edward Large, Jessica Adrienne Grahn & Simone Dalla Bella

ABSTRACT

From an early age onwards we tend to synchronize to temporally regular and rhythmic stimuli, such as the beat in music, which inevitably leads to movement. Recently, such basic mapping of temporally regular sound and motor behavior has been critically discussed and the four speakers of this symposium will address extensions of a basic sensorimotor conceptualization of entrainment in their talks. M. Henry and colleagues discuss oscillatory entrainment in perception only, while E. Large puts to test whether oscillatory entrainment simply mirrors stimulus frequency when movement is coupled with syncopated rhythm. J. Grahn explores whether non-beat related factors impact synchronization in movement, while S. Dalla-Bella confers how stimulus complexity affects people’s capacity to synchronize finger tapping but also perception. The symposium will be discussed by V. Penhune.