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Tempo Perception Across Cultures: The Beat Is All It Takes, Kendall L. Lyons, Jessica E. Nave-Blodgett, Erin E. Hannon
Tempo Perception Across Cultures: The Beat Is All It Takes, Kendall L. Lyons, Jessica E. Nave-Blodgett, Erin E. Hannon
AANAPISI Poster Presentations
- Dancing to music is a human universal that relies on beat perception.
- Listeners may infer the “tempo” or speed of music from:
- the time interval between beats;
- the density of events;
- higher-level features of musical temporal organization (the meter).
- The “Gabbling Foreigner Illusion” is the observation that listeners perceive unfamiliar languages as being faster than familiar ones.
- Even when music is the same speed, listeners tap faster to unfamiliar music.
- Does culture background impact how we perceive musical tempo?