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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Spatial Cognition

Background:

  • The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) links numerical magnitude to response side.
  • Similar spatial associations have been observed for non-numerical magnitudes like duration and music.
  • The current study explores the spatial representation of music tempo.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if music tempo (beats per minute) is spatially associated with response position.
  • To determine if this spatial association effect is consistent across different tempo ranges.
  • To compare the spatial representation of music tempo with that of temporal duration.

Main Methods:

  • Participants judged if a target beat sequence was faster or slower than a reference.
  • Three groups were tested on different tempo ranges: wide (40-200 bpm), narrow slow (40-104 bpm), and narrow fast (133-201 bpm).
  • Response times to different tempo stimuli were analyzed for spatial biases.

Main Results:

  • A SNARC-like effect was observed specifically in the narrow fast tempo range (133-201 bpm).
  • Faster left-hand responses occurred for slower tempos (133, 150 bpm), and faster right-hand responses for faster tempos (184, 201 bpm) within this range.
  • No significant spatial association effect was found in the wide tempo range or the narrow slow tempo range.

Conclusions:

  • Music tempo is spatially represented, similar to other continuous quantities.
  • This spatial representation appears to be range-dependent, primarily emerging in faster tempo ranges.
  • Music tempo and temporal duration may be spatially represented in opposite directions.