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Event-based and emergent timing: dichotomy or continuum? A reply to Repp and Steinman (2010)
Didier Delignières1, Kjerstin Torre
1EA 2991 Movement to Health, University Montpellier 1, France. didier.delignieres@univ-montp1.fr
Abstract:
B. H. Repp and S. R. Steiman (2010) suggested that event-based and emergent timing, usually conceived as mutually exclusive modes of timing, could in fact coexist in a single activity. According to this point of view, rhythmic activities could exploit mixtures of control modes, in which the relative importance of event-based and emergent components could depend on task characteristics. This point of view, in the opinion of the authors of the present article, corresponds to a fundamental misunderstanding of the theoretical basis of the event-based and emergent distinction, and is not supported by any experimental evidence. However, they present some new results that could support new lines of reasoning for the future developments of research in this domain.
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