Received: JanuAccepted: JPublished: August 26, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Lee et al. Proulx, University of Bath, UNITED KINGDOM Results shed light on the processing of multimedia environments.Ĭitation: Lee KM, Barrett KC, Kim Y, Lim Y, Lee K (2015) Dance and Music in “Gangnam Style”: How Dance Observation Affects Meter Perception. Viewing dance may interfere with sound processing, particularly at critical metrical positions, but embodied familiarity with dance choreography may facilitate meter awareness. This study has implications for understanding: 1) the impact of splitting attention among different sensory modalities, and 2) the impact of embodiment, on perception of musical meter. Results likely stem from the temporally selective division of attention between auditory and visual domains. Results again showed slower RTs to stronger metrical positions and the group with experience demonstrated a more refined perception of metrical hierarchy. Moreover, participants in this experiment were divided into a group with experience dancing this choreography and a group without experience. In experiment 2, participants viewed the choreography of the horse-riding dance from Psy’s “Gangnam Style” in order to examine how a familiar dance might affect meter perception. Participants had the slowest RT’s at the strongest beats in the dance condition only. A sound track accompanied these videos and participants reacted to timbre targets at different metrical positions.
Experiments here investigated the effects of dance cues on meter perception, hypothesizing that dance could embody the musical meter, thereby shaping participant reaction times (RTs) to sound targets occurring at different metrical positions.In experiment 1, participants viewed a video with dance choreography indicating 4/4 meter (dance condition) or a series of color changes repeated in sequences of four to indicate 4/4 meter (picture condition). a hierarchical organization of beats) via coordinated movement patterns that indicate where strong and weak beats occur. Previous research has shown that dance reflects the temporal structure of its accompanying music, communicating musical meter (i.e. This study investigated how the viewing of dance motions shapes sound perception.
Dance and music often co-occur as evidenced when viewing choreographed dances or singers moving while performing.