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Humans move to the beat of music. Despite the ubiquity and early emergence of
this response, some individuals report being unable to feel the beat in music. We
report a sample of people without special training, all of whom were proficient
at perceiving and producing the musical beat with the exception of one case
("Mathieu"). Motion capture and psychophysical tests revealed that people
synchronized full-body motion to music and detected when a model dancer was not
in time with the music. In contrast, Mathieu failed to period- and phase-lock his
movement to the beat of most music pieces, and failed to detect most asynchronies
of the model dancer. Mathieu's near-normal synchronization with a metronome
suggests that the deficit concerns beat finding in the context of music. These
results point to time as having a distinct neurobiological origin from pitch in
music processing.
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