Visual Timing of Structured Dance Movements Resembles Auditory Rhythm Perception

Figure 1

Illustrations of the visual stimuli for Experiment  1, shown as selected frames taken from the videos. (a) 1st row: discrete arm movement shown as one handclap. As this trajectory was repeated in the sequence, only one example is shown. 2nd row: continuous arm movement. 3rd row: mixed arm movement. (b) 1st row: discrete leg movement shown as one foot tap. As this trajectory was repeated in the sequence, only one example is shown. 2nd row: continuous leg movement. 3rd row: mixed leg movement. With the exception of the discrete arm and leg movements, the four frames for all the sequences correspond to beats 1, 3, 5, and 7 of the 8-beat count in the metronome that paced the dancer’s movement.

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