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The detectability of local and global displacements in regular rhythmic patterns

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The aim of this study is to find out by which mechanism human subjects discriminate a regular sequence of beats from an irregular one. Therefore a detection experiment was conducted in which subjects had to detect one of three different types of displacement within a regular rhythmic pattern. The results are against a theory which assumes that in such a task successive intervals are compared. They are more in favor of a theory that postulates an internal time keeper which is synchronized with the presented pattern.

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  1. Institut für Psychologie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 19, D-3300, Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans-Henning Schulze

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Schulze, HH. The detectability of local and global displacements in regular rhythmic patterns. Psychol. Res 40, 173–181 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00308412

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