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Complex Impact of Stimulus Envelope on Motor Synchronization to Sound.

Yue Sun¹, Georgios Michalareas^2,3, Oded Ghitza⁴

¹Ernst Struengmann Institute for Neuroscience, Frankfurt am Main 60528, Germany yue.sun@esi-frankfurt.de.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience

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Sharp onsets facilitate auditory phase alignment, but are not essential for tracking rhythm rates. This suggests distinct neural processes for phase and rate tracking in sensorimotor synchronization.

Keywords:

acoustic landmarks auditory envelope tracking onset sensorimotor

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Area of Science:

Auditory Neuroscience
Sensorimotor Synchronization
Psychoacoustics

Background:

The human brain accurately tracks temporal patterns in sounds.
Neuroimaging reveals neural activity synchronizes with stimulus envelope shapes.
The relationship between neural responses to envelope shapes and perceptual synchronization needs clarification.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how stimulus envelope sharpness affects motor and sensory synchronization to auditory rhythms.
To determine if sharp onsets are necessary for accurate rate tracking of amplitude-modulated (AM) sounds.
To explore the dissociation between phase and rate tracking in sensorimotor synchronization.

Main Methods:

Participants performed synchronous motor finger-tapping and sensory synchronization tasks.
Stimuli included noise with periodic AM, featuring three envelope shapes varying in onset sharpness.
Behavioral responses (tap alignment) were analyzed in relation to stimulus envelope characteristics.

Main Results:

Sharp stimulus onsets led to more consistent phase alignment in finger-tapping and sensory synchronization.
Despite less consistent phase alignment with gradual onsets, participants equally extracted the modulation rate.
Participants consistently tapped at the modulation rate, irrespective of onset sharpness.

Conclusions:

Sharp acoustic onsets facilitate temporal phase alignment but are not required for tracking auditory rhythm rates.
Robust rate tracking of acoustic periodicity can occur without sharp onsets or consistent phase alignment.
Distinct neural mechanisms likely underlie phase and rate tracking, modulated by stimulus temporal dynamics.