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.