Rhythm perception

A series of experiments in the field of rhythm perception, examining the mental representation of the temporal and intensity-based properties of a rhythm sequence, demonstrates that errors made by adults in judging the intensities of sounds were dependent on the location of the judged sound in short rhythmic sequences, as well as demonstrating systematic distorsions of perceived temporal intervals at the end of a group (in adjustment tasks where the temporal organization and the number of elements were varied). The results of these experiments underline the need to distinguish between the perception of objective variations and the subjective representation of the properties of sounds when they are embedded in a sequence (immediate context) and used as the basis of various decisions (larger context). These results are discussed in the light of data on masking, subjective accents, temporal summation, perceptual illusion and judgmental processes

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