"Temporal Precision in Tasks Involving Auditory Imagery"
> Peter Keller
> Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig
>
> Friday January 6, 2006, 5 pm
> Room G18, Webster Bldg
> University of NSW
>
> ABSTRACT
> Temporal precision in tasks involving auditory imagery
> Peter Keller
> Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
>
> Musicians presumably engage in auditory imagery in order to keep the
> ideal sound in mind during music performance. A goal in performance,
> then, is to realise this ideal sound through the precise control of body
> movements. The accuracy with which movements are timed is typically
> crucial. I will describe a series of experimental studies that
> investigated whether the ability to meet precise temporal goals
> (isochrony or specific expressive timing profiles) is influenced by (a)
> the anticipation of sounds produced through a musician¹s own movements,
> and (b) the ability to anticipate another musician¹s sounds in a virtual
> ensemble setting. The results are suggestive of an intimate relationship
> between auditory imagery and the motor control processes that underlie
> temporally precise movements in music.
>
> Hope you can join us for the AMPS seminar at UNSW on January 6 (and a post
> seminar drink to see in the New Year!). cheers