The Time-Course of Pulse Sensation: Dynamics of Beat Induction
Petri Toiviainen · 2000
The ability to infer beat and meter from music is one of the basic activities of musical cognition. It is a rapid process: after having heard only a short fragment of music we are able to develop a sense of beat and meter and tap our foot along with it. Even if the music is rhythmically complex, containing a range of different time intervals and probably