Headphones or Speakers? An Exploratory Study of Their Effects on Spontaneous Body Movement to Rhythmic Music

Frontiers in Psychology

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Agata Zelechowska¹  Victor E. Gonzalez-Sanchez¹  Bruno Laeng¹  Alexander Refsum Jensenius¹ 

[1] RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, University of Oslo;Department of Musicology, University of Oslo;Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

关键词: headphones;    speakers;    playback method;    embodiment;    music-induced movement;    sensorimotor synchronization;    motion capture;    electronic dance music;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00698

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Previous studies have shown that music may lead to spontaneous body movement, even when people try to stand still. But are spontaneous movement responses to music similar if the stimuli are presented using headphones or speakers? This article presents results from an exploratory study in which 35 participants listened to rhythmic stimuli while standing in a neutral position. The six different stimuli were 45 s each and ranged from a simple pulse to excerpts from electronic dance music (EDM). Each participant listened to all the stimuli using both headphones and speakers. An optical motion capture system was used to calculate their quantity of motion, and a set of questionnaires collected data about music preferences, listening habits, and the experimental sessions. The results show that the participants on average moved more when listening through headphones. The headphones condition was also reported as being more tiresome by the participants. Correlations between participants' demographics, listening habits, and self-reported body motion were observed in both listening conditions. We conclude that the playback method impacts the level of body motion observed when people are listening to music. This should be taken into account when designing embodied music cognition studies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY