The relationship between lapsing and scaling : explaining timing variations in a contemporary dance performance

Emery Schubert, Catherine Stevens, Sam Ferguson

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Timing variations in memory recall of a sequence of events are classified into two categories – lapses and scaling. Lapses refer to variations or errors made by inserting, deleting or mis-positioning material in a recall condition with respect to the serial location of the original material that was coded. This process is discussed in the context of a contemporary dance work performed with music and without music (here thought of as the recall condition). The two dance conditions were motion captured and compared. In addition to lapsing errors, it was hypothesized that a mechanism that produced time dilation of the encoded material was also present, producing a time scaling response (rather than lapses per se). This paper describes why it was purported in our earlier research that lapsing and scaling are not independent, and why they appear to merge at some points into what was referred to as ‘microscaling’. The present discussion argues that (1) there exists a mathematically conceptual transition between lapsing and scaling, making the two parts of a kind of continuum and (2) lapses are contingent on the identification of measurable conceptual or semantic units, making the physical units, of the kind that motion capture measures, an extension or special case of scaling. Motion capture divorced from an understanding of the semantic, syntactic and grammatical structure of, in this case, the dance work, cannot be used to identify lapses in a meaningful way. Future research wherein structural analysis of a dance work is compared with the lapse analysis developed here will determine the explanatory power and psychological validity of the concepts of lapsing and scaling in human memory for movement.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (30 Sep. - 2 Oct. 2009)
    PublisherAustralasian Society for Cognitive Science
    Pages311-315
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)9780646529189
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventConference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009 : North Ryde, N.S.W.) -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceConference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009 : North Ryde, N.S.W.)
    Period1/01/10 → …

    Keywords

    • dance
    • memory errors

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