Book contents
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Sensation and the Experience of Time Passage
- Chapter 2 Gestalt and the Otherness of Everyday Experience
- Chapter 3 Near and Far in Space and Time
- Chapter 4 Memory With and Without Remembering
- Chapter 5 The Activated Mind
- Chapter 6 The Decay Process
- Chapter 7 The Body in Time
- Chapter 8 An Allometry for Rhythmic Pulse
- Chapter 9 Allometries in Body Energetics
- Chapter 10 The Feeling of Time
- References
- Index
Chapter 8 - An Allometry for Rhythmic Pulse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2025
Book contents
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- The Psychology of Human Temporality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The Nature of Sensation and the Experience of Time Passage
- Chapter 2 Gestalt and the Otherness of Everyday Experience
- Chapter 3 Near and Far in Space and Time
- Chapter 4 Memory With and Without Remembering
- Chapter 5 The Activated Mind
- Chapter 6 The Decay Process
- Chapter 7 The Body in Time
- Chapter 8 An Allometry for Rhythmic Pulse
- Chapter 9 Allometries in Body Energetics
- Chapter 10 The Feeling of Time
- References
- Index
Summary
Rhythmic pulse is investigated as being especially fertile ground for measuring activation lifetimes in people. A single study is described that measured individual differences in the watershed tempo separating the feeling of rhythmic pulse from the feeling of being lost. A first tutorial is given into how drumming data are rendered as a time series. A second tutorial explains how drumming time series can be used to infer the immanent and subjective state of rhythmic pulse. An allometric law for the watershed tempo is derived in a large study of drumming performances produced by both children and adults. The statistical problems encountered in fitting straight-line allometric regressions to people of very different sizes and ages are discussed in detail. The chapter concludes with the production of a single number, the power law exponent that connects body size to the tempo range over which a person can experience rhythmic pulse.
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