On the relation between rhythm complexity measures and human rhythmic performance

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 273, Issue , 2008, Pages 199-204

  Thul, Eric ^a   Toussaint, Godfried T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Measurement; Performance; Verification

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITIES; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN PERFORMANCES; MUSICAL RHYTHMS; PERFORMANCE; WEIGHTED DISTANCES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 57049176597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370256.1370289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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