Publications

Publications in progress

Wöllner, C. & London, J. (Eds.) (2023, in press). Performing time. Synchrony and temporal flow in music and dance. Oxford University Press.

Burger, B. & Wöllner, C. (accepted, in press). Drumming action and perception: How the movements of a professional drummer influence experiences of tempo, time, and expressivity.  Music & Science.

Wang, X., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (accepted, in press). Tapping to drumbeats in an online experiment changes our perception of time and expressiveness. Psychological Research.

McDonald, G. & Wöllner, C. (accepted, in press). The contrast principle, typicality, and cultural longevity in 19th century symphony slow movements: A corpus analysis. Music & Science.

Burger, B., Wang, X., & Wöllner, C. (submitted). Tapping online – porting sensorimotor synchronisation as an established experimental method to a web-based environment.

Wang, X., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (under review). Comparing original and tempo-manipulated biological movements: From kinematics to multimodal emotion and time perception.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (submitted). Emotional states, long-term stress and spontaneous motor tempo influence the present passage of time.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (in prep). Pupil responses reflect internal time keeping and predict temporal judgements.

Allingham, E., Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (in prep). Temporal stability of musical imagery and time perception.

Published project publications (peer-reviewed)

All peer-reviewed publications are available in open access at Zenodo, the repository provided by the OpenAIRE project.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2022). Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice. Psychology of Music, OnlineFirst [DOI: 10.1177/03057356221129650] 

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2022). Effects of attentional focus on motor performance and physiology in a slow-motion violin bow-control task: Evidence for the constrained action hypothesis in bowed string technique. Journal of Research in Music Education, 70(2), 168-189. [DOI: 10.1177/00224294211034735]

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2022). Spontaneous motor tempo over the course of a week: The role of the time of the day, chronotype, and arousal. Psychological Research. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-022-01646-2]

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2022). Slow practice and tempo management strategies in instrumental music learning: Investigating prevalence and cognitive functions. Psychology of Music. [DOI: 10.1177/03057356211073481]

Allingham, E., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Motor performance in violin bowing: Effects of attentional focus on acoustical, physiological, and physical parameters of a sound-producing action. Journal of New Music Research. [DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2021.1978506]

Hammerschmidt, D., Frieler, K., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Spontaneous motor tempo: Investigating psychological, chronobiological, and demographic factors in a large-scale online tapping experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 677201. [DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.677201]

Wang, X., Wöllner, C., & Shi, Z. (2021). Perceiving tempo in incongruent audiovisual presentations of human motion: Evidence for a visual driving effect. Timing & Time Perception. [DOI: 10.1163/22134468-bja10036]

Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). The challenge of being slow: Effects of tempo, laterality, and experience on dance movement consistency. Journal of Motor Behavior. [DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2021.1896469]

Hammerschmidt, D., Wöllner, C. , London, J., & Burger, B. (2021). Disco time: The relationship between perceived duration and tempo in music. Music & Science.  [DOI: 10.1177/2059204320986384]

Wöllner, C., & Hammerschmidt, D. (2021). Tapping to hip-hop: Effects of cognitive load, arousal, and musical meter on time experiences. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 1552–1561. [DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02227-4]

Allingham, E., Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Time perception in human movement: Effects of speed and agency on duration estimation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(3), 559–572. [DOI: 10.1177/1747021820979518]

Wang, X., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Time as the ink that music is written with: a review of the internal clock models and their explanatory power in audiovisual perception. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie [Yearbook of Music Psychology]. [DOI: 10.5964/jbdgm.2019v29.67]

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Sensorimotor synchronization with higher metrical levels in music shortens perceived time. Music Perception, 37(4), 263–277. [DOI: 10.1525/MP.2020.37.4.263]

Wöllner, C., Hammerschmidt, D., & Albrecht, H. (2018). Slow motion in films and video clips: Music influences perceived duration and emotion, autonomic physiological activation and pupillary responses. PLOS ONE, 13(6): e0199161. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199161]

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2018). The impact of music and stretched time on pupillary responses and eye movements in slow-motion film scenes. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11(2):10. [DOI: 10.16910/jemr.11.2.10]

Conference presentations and talks

Allingham, E., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Effects of attentional focus on violin tone production: Physiological, physical, and acoustical outcomes. International Symposium on Performance Science, 27th - 30th October 2021, virtual conference.

Wang, X., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Tempo-manipulated biological motions elicit changes in emotional responses. 37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, 2nd - 3rd September 2021, virtual conference.

Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Tempo, Komplexität, Dynamik und Expressivität in Schlagzeugbewegungen. 37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, 2nd - 3rd September 2021, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2021). The prevalence and functions of slow music practice. 37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, 2nd - 3rd September 2021, virtual conference.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Das spontane motorische Tempo im Alltag: Eine Studie über den Einfluss der Chronobiologie und musikalischen Erfahrenheit. 37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, 2nd - 3rd September 2021, virtual conference.

Faasch, F., Kuch, M., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Journalistische Berichterstattung über Musik und Zeitwahrnehmung während des ersten bundesweiten Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020: Eine Korpusanalyse. 37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie, 2nd - 3rd September 2021, virtual conference.

Wöllner, C., & Hammerschmidt, D. (2021). Tapping to hip-hop: How cognitive load, arousal, and musical meter shape perceived time. ICMPC-ESCOM, 28th - 31st July 2021, virtual conference.

Wang, X., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Perceiving emotions in tempo-manipulated biological motions. ICMPC-ESCOM, 28th - 31st July 2021, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Focus of attention affects motor performance in violin bow-control: Evidence for the constrained action hypothesis. ICMPC-ESCOM, 28th - 31st July 2021, virtual conference.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Spontaneous motor tempo: Investigating chronobiology and musical sophistication using an experience sampling method. ICMPC-ESCOM, 28th - 31st July 2021, virtual conference.

Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Relationships between tempo, dynamics, and movement characteristics in drumming. ICMPC-ESCOM, 28th - 31st July 2021, virtual conference.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Investigating spontaneous motor tempo online with a large international sample. 5th International Conference on Time Perspective (ICTP). 12th - 16th July 2021, virtual conference.

Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Keep the beat. Time-keeping in case of a professional drummer. Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop. 24th June 2021, virtual workshop.

Allingham, E., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Effects of attentional focus on motor skill performance in violin bowing. Aarhus Summer School in Music Neuroscience. 14th - 17th June 2021, virtual summer school.

Wöllner, C. (2021). Synchronizing With Music Changes Our Sense of Time. International Symposium Art in Motion 2021. 4th - 5th June 2021, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Effects of attentional focus on motor skill performance in violin bowing. International Symposium Art in Motion 2021. 4th - 5th June 2021, virtual conference.

Wöllner, C., & Burger, B. (2021). Temporal levels in music: Investigating time dilations and performance synchrony. EnTimeMent Workshop “Capturing Human Time". 19th May 2021, virtual workshop.

Allingham, E. (2021). Effects of attentional focus on motor skill performance in violin bowing. University of Ghent Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) Think Tank. 18th March 2021, virtual discussion.

Wang, X., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Moving to beats: Perceiving emotions in tempo-manipulated biological motions. Fachgruppentreffen Systematische Musikwissenschaft. 12th March 2021, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2021). Violinists' "paralysis by analysis": Effects of focus of attention on motor skill performance in open string bowing. Escom cross-european winter school on musical ability 2021. 1st - 5th February 2021, virtual winter school.

Hammerschmidt, D., Frieler, K., & Wöllner, C. (2020). „Eigentempo“: A large-scale online study investigating factors affecting the spontaneous motor tempo. 16th Annual McMaster NeuroMusic Conference. 14th November 2020, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Motor skill performance in violin bowing: Evidence for constrained action effects on acoustical, physiological and physical outcomes. 16th Annual McMaster NeuroMusic Conference. 14th November 2020, virtual conference.

Wang, X., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Timing in a multisensory context: In search of the internal clock. Chinese Association for Psychological and Brain Sciences Conference. 14th-15th November 2020, virtual conference.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Violinists‘ “paralysis by analysis“: Effects of focus of attention on motor skill performance in open string bowing. In 36. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 21–22). 3rd-6th September 2020, virtual conference.

Burger, B., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Einfluss von Tempo, Lateralität und Expertise auf die Konsistenz von Tanzbewegungen. In 36. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 25–26). 3rd-6th September 2020, virtual conference.

Hammerschmidt, D., Frieler, K., & Wöllner, C. (2020). Innere Zeit: Eine Online-Tappingstudie zum spontanen motorischen Tempo und dessen Einflussfaktoren. In 36. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 74–75). 3rd-6th September 2020, virtual conference.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2019). Sensorimotor Synchronization to different metrical levels in music influences time perception. In Bötsch, I. & von Georgi, R. (Eds.), 12th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus19). Book of Abstracts (pp. 49–50). 10th-12th September 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Allingham, E., & Wöllner, C. (2019). Effects of Attentional Focus on Motor Skill Performance in Violin Bowing. In Bötsch, I. & von Georgi, R. (Eds.), 12th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus19). Book of Abstracts (pp. 53–54). 10th-12th September 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Hammerschmidt, D., Wöllner, C., & London, J. (2019). Time-Stretching: Über den Zusammenhang von Tempo- und Zeitwahrnehmung beim Musikhören. In 35. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 55–57), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

Wang, X., Wöllner, C., & Shi, Z. (2019). How does time fly in inconsistent audiovisual contexts? An exploratory study with a temporal bisection paradigm. In 35. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 88–90), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

Wöllner, C. (2019). Time dilations in music and audiovisual media. International Symposium on Hearing (musical) scenes, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst, Germany.

Hammerschmidt, D., Visi, F., & Wöllner, C. (2018). Sensomotorische Synchronisation zu Musik und die Wahrnehmung von Zeit. In 34. Tagungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 56–57), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany.

Wöllner, C. (2018). Shared musical and movement features in free jazz improvisation. 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (p. 81), Concordia University Montreal, Canada.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2018). Eye movements in film perception: The Impact of emotional music and playback speed. 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition /  10th Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (p. 172), University of Graz, Austria.

Visi, F., Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2018). Using Unimanual and Bimanual Tapping to Explore Synchronisation with Musical Rhythmic Layers. 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (p. 65), Concordia University Montreal, Canada.

Wöllner, C. & Hammerschmidt, D. (2018). Stretching time in audiovisual media: Influences of playback technology and music on perceived emotion and induced arousal. In E. Himonides, A. King, & F. Cuadrado (Eds.), Proceedings of the SEMPRE MET2018, 26–27 March 2018 (pp. 79–81), University College London, UK.

Hammerschmidt, D., Wöllner, C., Albrecht, H., Hohagen, J. (2017). Music and slow motion: A study of eye movements in film and video clips. In Fink, L. K. & Lange, E. B. (Eds.), Conference on Music and Eye-Tracking (pp. 14–15), Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Wöllner, C., Albrecht, H., Hammerschmidt, D., & Hohagen, J. (2017). Slow motion in films and video clips: The role of music on perceived duration, emotions and eye movements. In E. van Dyck (Ed.), 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (pp. 125–126), University of Ghent, Belgium.

Recent project-related publications and talks by team members

Burger, B., & Fischinger, T. (2021). Where's the Downbeat? Beat Embodiment to Reggae and Techno. Art in Motion. 5th June 2021, virtual conference.

Burger, B., & Toiviainen, P. (2020). See how it feels to move: Relationships between movement characteristics and perception of emotions in dance. Human Technology, 16(3), 233-256.

Burger, B. (2020). Unterschiede in der Synchronisationsgenauigkeit zwischen verschiedenen Ganzkörperbewegungen und Musik. Fachgruppentagung Systematische Musikwissenschaft. 6th March 2020, Kassel, Germany.

Wöllner, C. (2019). Anticipated sonic actions and sounds in performance. In M. Grimshaw, M. Walther-Hansen, & M. Knakkergaard (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of sound and imagination, vol. 2 (pp. 37-57). New York: Oxford University Press.

Hartmann, M., Mavrolampados, A., Allingham, E., Carlson, E., Burger, B., & Toiviainen, P. (2019). Kinematics of perceived dyadic coordination in music-induced movement. Scientific Reports, 9, 15594. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52097-6

London, J., Burger, B., Thompson, M. R., Hildreth, M., Wilson, J., Schally, N. & Toiviainen, P. (2019). Motown, Disco, and Drumming: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Beat Salience, Melodic Structure, and Perceived Tempo. Music Perception, 37(1), 26-41.

London, J., Thompson, M. R., Burger, B., Hildreth, M., & Toiviainen, P. (2019). Tapping doesn't help: Synchronized self-motion and judgments of musical tempo. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(7), 2461-2472.

Wang, X., Shi, Z., & Wöllner, C. (2019). Temporal Entrainment Effect: Can Music Enhance our Attention Resolution in Time? In Bötsch, I. & von Georgi, R. (Eds.), 12th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus19). Book of Abstracts (pp. 54–55). 10th-12th September 2019, Berlin, Germany.

Wöllner, C. (2018). Call and Response: Musical and bodily interactions in dyadic jazz improvisation. Musicae Scientiae, Online First.

Burger, B., London, J., Thompson, M. R., & Toiviainen, P. (2018). Synchronization to metrical levels in music depends on event density. Psychological Research, 82(6), 1195–1211.

Burger, B., Puupponen, A., & Jantunen, T. (2018). Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11(2):5.

Burger, B., & Toiviainen, P. (2018). Embodiment in Electronic Dance Music: Effects of musical content and structure on body movement. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864918792594

Outram, M. (2018). Book review: Vicky Karkou, Sue Oliver, and Sophia Lycouris (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of dance and wellbeing. Musicae Scientiae, 22(2), 284–288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864918765935

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2017). Audio-visual quality perception in musical performance videos. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie [Yearbook of Music Psychology], 27, 112–127.

Wöllner, C. (Ed.) (2017). Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations. Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Wöllner, C. (2017). Structured sounds in bodily and spatial dimensions (Introduction). In C. Wöllner (Ed.), Body, sound, and space in music and beyond. Multimodal explorations (pp. 1–10). Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Wöllner, C., & Hohagen, J. (2017). Gestural qualities in music and outward bodily responses. In C. Wöllner (Ed.), Body, sound, and space in music and beyond. Multimodal explorations (pp. 69–88). Abingdon, New York: Routledge.

Wöllner, C. & Keller, P. (2017). Music with others: Ensembles, conductors, and interpersonal coordination. In R. Ashley & R. Timmers (Eds.), The Routledge companion to music cognition. New York: Routledge.

Wöllner, C. (2017). Audience responses in the light of perception-action theories of empathy. In E. King & C. Waddington (Eds.), Music and empathy (pp. 139–156). New York: Routledge.

Wöllner, C. & Halpern, A. (2016). Attentional flexibility and memory capacity in conductors and pianists. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 198–208. [DOI 10.3758/s13414-015-0989-z]

Sevdalis, V. & Wöllner, C. (2016). Capturing motion for enhancing performance: An embodied cognition perspective on sports and the performing arts. In M. Raab, B. Lobinger, S. Hoffmann, A. Pizzera, & S. Laborde (Eds.), Performance psychology. Perception, action, cognition, and emotion (pp. 223–234). Amsterdam: Academic Press/Elsevier.

Hammerschmidt, D., & Wöllner, C. (2015). The influence of image compression rate on perceived audio quality in music video-clips. In R. Timmers, N. Dibben, Z. Eitan, R. Granot, T. Metcalfe, A. Schiavio, & V. Williamson (Eds.), Proceedings of ICMEM 2015. International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music. Sheffield: HRI Online Publications.