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Anticipatory phase correction in sensorimotor synchronization.

Bruno H Repp¹, Gordon P Moseley

¹Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT 06511-6624, USA. repp@haskins.yale.edu

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Anticipating timing changes in sensorimotor synchronization is possible with advance information. Participants could consciously adjust their tapping to improve phase correction, though fast tempos and limited information posed challenges.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Human Motor Control
Auditory Perception

Background:

Sensorimotor synchronization studies often use unpredictable timing perturbations.
Understanding anticipatory responses to predictable perturbations is crucial for motor control research.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if advance information about timing perturbations enhances anticipatory phase correction in sensorimotor synchronization.
To explore the influence of information type (direction, position, magnitude) and timing on anticipatory responses.

Main Methods:

Experiment 1: Musically trained participants tapped in synchrony with tone sequences containing phase shifts (PS), with partial advance information.
Experiment 2: Participants received complete advance information about PS magnitude at different times relative to the stimulus, with varying tempos.
Measured tap timing adjustments and phase correction responses.

Main Results:

Advance information about PS direction or position had limited effect, but knowing both enhanced anticipatory tapping.
Anticipatory phase correction was generally conservative and hindered by fast tempos.
Advancing a tap was more difficult than delaying a tap at fast tempos.

Conclusions:

Anticipatory phase correction can be consciously controlled, similar to reactive phase correction.
Temporal constraints on anticipatory and reactive phase correction appear comparable.
Predictability and tempo significantly influence the ability to anticipate and correct timing perturbations.