Effects of rhythm and accent patterns on tempo-keeping property of finger tapping

The tempo of music performance is often accelerated irrespective of players’ intention. Though the characteristics of the tempo deviation phenomenon have been investigated using a finger-tapping task, most such studies dealt with tapping with a fixed interval and intensity; few studies considered the effects of rhythm and accent, both important factors of music performance. Here, we asked how different rhythm and accent patterns affected the tempo-keeping property using a synchronization-continuation task paradigm: Participants were asked to keep tapping while reproducing the given rhythm/accent patterns designated by the target tones. Tapping tempo was significantly deviated depending on rhythm/accent patterns, but their magnitudes were only several percent in 150 seconds, much smaller than those in real music performance. We also ran experiments under the conditions that participants need not reproduce the accent patterns but only response tones were accented. These auditory modulatio..., , , # Effects of Rhythm and Accent Patterns on Tempo-Keeping Property of Finger Tapping

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.xgxd254ns](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.xgxd254ns)

## Description of the data and file structure

#### Raw bar length data

Files named \"barlength_raw_expXY.csv\" give the bar length data (unit: second) in three experiments of this study, where X means the experiment number and Y means the experimental condition (For example, exp1A means the condition A in Experiment 1). As for Experiment 3, A, B, ... and E mean Control, Crescendo, Diminuendo, Ascending and Descending, respectively.

* 1st column: participant ID
* 2nd column: trial number for each participant
* 3rd to end columns: length of each bar
* 1st row: index of the bar (a negative number means the synchronization phase, and 0 or a positive number means the continuation phase)

\"NaN\" means missing data in these files. In Experiment 3, bar length was determined as the half of the sequence length because a bar consis...