Exploring the spatio-temporal properties of simple conducting gestures using a synchronization task

Music Perception

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 225-239

  Luck, Geoff ^a   Sloboda, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conducting; Gestures; Human movement; Synchronization; Visual beat induction

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949189672     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/mp.2008.25.3.225     Document Type: Article

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