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Feeling the Beat: Movement Influences Infant Rhythm Perception

2005; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 308; Issue: 5727 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.1110922

1095-9203

Jessica Phillips-Silver, Laurel J. Trainor,

Music and Audio Processing

We hear the melody in music, but we feel the beat. We demonstrate that the perception of musical rhythm is a multisensory experience in infancy. In particular, movement of the body, by bouncing on every second versus every third beat of an ambiguous auditory rhythm pattern, influences whether that auditory rhythm pattern is encoded in duple form (a march) or in triple form (a waltz). Visual information is not necessary for the effect, indicating that it likely reflects a strong, early-developing interaction between auditory and vestibular information in the human nervous system.