Exploring Individual Temporal Preferences

Understanding and producing motor and auditory sequences requires an accurately controlled temporal dimension. Interestingly, our everyday experience and research suggest that individuals differ both in their temporal motor pattern production and in their musical preferences. Various studies identified interindividual temporal differences in locomotion, goal-directed movement, as well as in speech patterns. Throughout the last century, there have been investigations of the relationship between musical preferences and personality, and in particular of the way, in which musical tempo is associated to age, sex, as…