| Intrinsic constraint of asymmetry acting as a control parameter on rapid, rhythmic bimanual coordination: a study of professional drummers and nondrummers. | |
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PMID: 20702735 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Expert musicians show experience-dependent reduced asymmetry in the structure of motor-related brain areas and in the maximum tapping frequency between the hands. Therefore we hypothesized that a reduced hand-skill asymmetry is strongly related to rapid and rhythmical bimanual coordination and developed a dynamical model including a symmetry-breaking parameter Δω, for human bimanual coordination. We conducted unimanual and bimanual drumming experiments to test the following model predictions. 1) The asymmetry in the maximum tapping frequency is more pronounced in nondrummers than that in drummers. If so, 2) a larger number of phase wanderings (i.e., succession of taps by the same hand), 3) larger SD of the relative phase between the hands (SD ), and 4) larger deviation of mean relative phase (mean ) from 180° would be observed in nondrummers than that in professional drummers during antiphase bimanual drumming at the maximum speed. In a unimanual tapping task, the asymmetry in maximum tapping frequency of nondrummers was more pronounced than that of professional drummers. In a bimanual coordination task, phase wanderings were observed only in nondrummers and SD of the nondrummers is significantly larger than that of professional drummers. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between the mean of the two groups. All these observations were successfully reproduced by changing Δω, which corresponded to the asymmetry in the maximum tapping frequency. These results support the hypothesis indicating that the prominent bimanual coordination pattern emerges spontaneously after a nonspecific change in Δω or symmetry restoration of the nonlinear dynamical systems. |
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Shinya Fujii; Kazutoshi Kudo; Tatsuyuki Ohtsuki; Shingo Oda |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-08-11 |
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Title: Journal of neurophysiology Volume: 104 ISSN: 1522-1598 ISO Abbreviation: J. Neurophysiol. Publication Date: 2010 Oct |
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Created Date: 2010-10-05 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0375404 Medline TA: J Neurophysiol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 2178-86 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Physical and Health Education, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. |
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