Why Do Durations in Musical Rhythms Conform to Small Integer Ratios?

One curious aspect of human timing is the organization of rhythmic patterns in small integer ratios. Behavioral and neural research has shown that adjacent time intervals in rhythms tend to be perceived and reproduced as approximate fractions of small numbers (e.g., 3/2). Recent work on iterated lea...

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Main Authors: Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Massimo Lumaca, Manon Grube
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2018.00086/full