title: Synchronization to a bouncing ball with a realistic motion trajectory.
abstract: Daily music experience involves synchronizing movements in time with a perceived periodic beat. It has been established for over a century that beat synchronization is less stable for the visual than for the auditory modality. This auditory advantage of beat synchronization gives rise to the hypotheses that the neural and evolutionary mechanisms underlying beat synchronization are modality-specific. Here, however, we found that synchronization to a periodically bouncing ball with a realistic motion trajectory was not less stable than synchronization to an auditory metronome. This finding challenges the auditory advantage of beat synchronization, and has important implications for the understanding of the biological substrates of beat synchronization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Building 313, 135 Xingang west road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510275.
authors.forename: Lingyu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Building 313, 135 Xingang west road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510275.
authors.forename: Yingyu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Building 313, 135 Xingang west road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510275.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Building 313, 135 Xingang west road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510275.
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Building 313, 135 Xingang west road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510275.
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu