This paper is a brief commentary on Poudrier's (2017) research article titled "Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences." Poudrier's study aimed "to explore the relative salience of an implied beat in two contrasting rhythmic sequences" (p. 277) taken from one of Elliott Carter's compositions using a pulse finding paradigm. In our commentary, we critically evaluate the current approach and discuss further interpretations based on the author's results. Primarily, we argue that it is very difficult to draw any clear conclusions from the data (on a mathematical/statistical basis) because the recorded tapping behavior, namely the overall synchronization rate of the participants was far below chance level. These results therefore need to be interpreted with caution, which also implies that emergence of temporal expectations in terms of the concept of " mensural determinacy ," originally conceptualized by Hasty (1997), still needs further clarification. Nevertheless, this study may serve as a fruitful example for a pulse finding study, offering some helpful insights into the methodological issues when applying a tapping paradigm to highly complex art/modern music.

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评Poudrier的“挖掘卡特：复杂节奏序列中的心理确定性”

本文是对Poudrier（2017）研究论文的简短评论，题为“挖掘卡特：复杂节奏序列中的心理确定性”。Poudrier的研究旨在“用脉冲发现范式从埃利奥特·卡特（Elliott Carter）的一首作品中提取出两个相对有节奏的节奏序列中隐含节拍的相对显着性”（第277页）。在我们的评论中，我们严格评估当前的方法并根据作者的结果讨论进一步的解释。首先，我们认为很难从数据中得出任何明确的结论（在数学/统计基础上），因为记录的敲击行为（即参与者的整体同步率）远低于机会水平。因此，必须谨慎解释这些结果，这也意味着，由Hasty（1997）最初概念化的“心理确定性”概念的时间期望的出现仍需要进一步澄清。然而，这项研究可以作为脉冲发现研究的一个富有成果的例子，当将敲击范例应用于高度复杂的艺术/现代音乐时，可以为方法学问题提供一些有用的见解。