Figure 1.

Overview of the stimuli displayed to the participant. The sequence of expressive motion is indicated by a dot-light display based on the collected motion capture of a first violinist of a string quartet. The two temporal segments used in the experiment refer, respectively, to the preparation (temporally cropped condition, a) and the preparation plus the entry part (temporally unmodified condition, b). For each of these temporal conditions, spatial shuffling was also applied as a separate condition (c and d, respectively). After viewing the selected sequence, participants were asked to indicate the perceived communicative intent of the music (forte or piano) by pressing akey.