Human Preferences for Tempo Smoothness

Nonhuman primates prefer slow tempos but dislike music overall.

Human adults generally find fast tempos more arousing than slow tempos, with tempo frequently manipulated in music to alter tension and emotion. We used a previously published method [McDermott, J., & Hauser, M. (2004). Are consonant intervals music to their ears? Spontaneous acoustic preferences in a nonhuman primate. Cognition, 94(2), B11-B21] to test cotton-top tamarins and common marmosets,...

Perceptual Smoothness of Tempo in Expressively Performed Music

WE REPORT THREE EXPERIMENTS EXAMINING the perception of tempo in expressively performed classical piano music. Each experiment investigates beat and tempo perception in a different way: rating the correspondence of a click track to a musical excerpt with which it was simultaneously presented; graphically marking the positions of the beats using an interactive computer program; and tapping in ti...

Tuning-in to the beat: Aesthetic appreciation of musical rhythms correlates with a premotor activity boost.

Listening to music can induce us to tune in to its beat. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that the motor system becomes involved in perceptual rhythm and timing tasks in general, as well as during preference-related responses to music. However, the role of preferred rhythm and, in particular, of preferred beat frequency (tempo) in driving activity in the motor system remains unknown. Th...

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Equivalence of K-functionals and modulus of smoothness for fourier transform

In Hilbert space L2(Rn), we prove the equivalence between the mod-ulus of smoothness and the K-functionals constructed by the Sobolev space cor-responding to the Fourier transform. For this purpose, Using a spherical meanoperator.