Journal
NEUROSCIENCES AND MUSIC V: COGNITIVE STIMULATION AND REHABILITATION
Volume 1337, Issue -, Pages 53-61Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12658
Keywords
familiarity; groove; rhythm; rhythmic auditory stimulation; gait rehabilitation
Funding
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- J.P. Bickell Foundation
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Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) is a gait rehabilitation method in which patients synchronize footsteps to a metronome or musical beats. Although RAS with music can ameliorate gait abnormalities, outcomes vary, possibly because music properties, such as groove or familiarity, differ across interventions. To optimize future interventions, we assessed how initially familiar and unfamiliar low-groove and high-groove music affected synchronization accuracy and gait in healthy individuals. We also experimentally increased music familiarity using repeated exposure to initially unfamiliar songs. Overall, familiar music elicited faster stride velocity and less variable strides, as well as better synchronization performance (matching of step tempo to beat tempo). High-groove music, as reported previously, led to faster stride velocity than low-groove music. We propose two mechanisms for familiarity's effects. First, familiarity with the beat structure reduces cognitive demands of synchronizing, leading to better synchronization performance and faster, less variable gait. Second, familiarity might have elicited faster gait by increasing enjoyment of the music, as enjoyment was higher after repeated exposure to initially low-enjoyment songs. Future studies are necessary to dissociate the contribution of these mechanisms to the observed RAS effects of familiar music on gait.
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