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Record W3161088883 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/7fetj

Backbeat Placement Affects Tempo Judgments

2020· preprint· en· W3161088883 on OpenAlexaff
Bryn Hughes, Dominique T. Vuvan

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience and Music Perception
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerceptionRhythmHierarchyMusicalPsychologyCognitive psychologyRepertoirePeriod (music)Feature (linguistics)Music perceptionTime perceptionLinguisticsAestheticsArtVisual artsLiteraturePolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Research on tempo perception has shown that it is effectively modeled by tactus rate (musical pulse), and aligns with the theory of metrical hierarchy. This research typically draws from common-practice music (music from the Western European tradition, ca. 1750-1900), and therefore does not address traits found in other repertoire that may contend with these claims. The current study investigated the impact of the backbeat, a ubiquitous rhythmic feature of popular music, on tempo perception. The experiment asked listeners to compare the tempos of pairs of excerpts with the same tactus rate. Pairs of excerpts were always presented with different backbeats, shifting to either half-time or double-time. Results indicated that half-time trials were perceived to be slower, and double-time trials were perceived to be faster, despite identical tactus rates and metrical hierarchies. The findings provide empirical support for the idea that established theories of tempo perception and metrical hierarchy may not entirely extend to other musical styles, and that the backbeat may be a metrical feature of popular music, rather than simply a rhythmic one.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.021
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.021
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.107
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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