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. 2012 Feb 27;7(2):e32308. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032308

Table 1. Experimental conditions and characteristics of the metronomes.

Sensory Modality Structure Auditory frequency Tactile frequency (and phasing) Label
Audio-tactile Simple Ωball Ωhand (Π = 0) Multi. Simp.
Audio-tactile Simple Ωball Ωhand (Π = π) Multi. Anti.
Audio-tactile Double 2*Ωball 2*Ωhand (Π = 0) Multi. Doub.
Tactile Double - 2*Ωhand (Π = 0) Tact. Doub.
Audio Double 2*Ωball - Audio. Doub.
- - - - Control

The sensory modalities (multimodal – solid line frame – vs. tactile or auditory unimodal) and the metronome parameters have been manipulated. We distinguished simple metronome from double metronome (dashed frame) for which the tactile and auditory metronome have been set equal to or twice the hands and balls frequency respectively. In one of the simple, multimodal metronome, the vibrotactile stimuli were presented in antiphase at the wrists (Multi. Anti, Π = π). Otherwise Π = 0 indicates that the vibrotactile stimuli were presented simultaneously.