Perceived and measured syncopation ratings and musical experience data from three web-based studies

We conducted a series of experiments assessing the alignment between individuals' perceptions of syncopation and various computational measures of syncopation. The first study was a pilot study performed on Mechanical Turk, and the next two were larger studies conducted on Prolific.co. The pilot study used an ad-hoc questionnaire for prior musical experience, while the latter two studies used the Goldsmith Music Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI). Each dataset contains the participants' perceived syncopation ratings, various computational measures of syncopation, and variables detailing whether or not that participant met our inclusion criteria, all of which were derived from the ratings of experimental rhythms and attention-check rhythms: in the pilot study, participants were excluded if more than 1 attention-check rhythm was rated as more syncopated than any experimental rhythm, while in the followup studies, participants were excluded if their attention-check rhythms were not rated to be significantly less syncopated than the experimental rhythms (as assessed by a two-sample t-test). However, all data are included in these files, even from participants who did not pass the inclusion criteria.