Vries, H. de (2014) Stick together or stick to the beat: A silent disco study. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
The purpose of current study was to determine the entrainment strength of music on the movement synchronization between two individuals coupled by their vision. This was achieved by adopting the so-called ‘silent disco’ situation, exposing pairs of individuals to a social rhythm (i.e. seeing each other’s movements) and a distractor rhythm (i.e. listening to music that differed between them). To analyze the interpersonal coordination, we captured the relative phase between the pair’s rhythmical movements. To explore the strength of the music entrainment a phase delay in the music was created between the individuals of a pair, which led to a conflict between the social and auditory stimulus perceived by the participants; one participant heard the music earlier than his or her partner while synchronizing their movements. The task of the participants was to keep synchronizing their movements with their partner while this conflict in the perceived rhythmical stimuli arose. The results showed that, on average, the musical distraction created a phase difference in the interpersonal coordination within the pairs. More specifically, a positive and negative phase shift in the music resulted in a positive and negative phase shift between the movements of the participant pairs respectively. We concluded that, on average, the musical entrainment indeed attracted the interpersonal movement pattern away from perfect synchronization; hence, the participants had the tendency to coordinate their movements with their own perceived music. The findings of current study are in line with the ideas that the entrainment of music triggers and strengthens prosocial behavior. Provided that the music has a clear distinguishable beat, the social glue of music would provide more stable behavior and would also lead to better functioning of a group of individuals. Keywords: Music entrainment; interpersonal coordination; visual perception; distractor stimulus
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Poel, dr. H.J. de |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2022 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2022 09:15 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3059 |
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