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Tempo in music context is defined as the speed of an auditory sequence. Recent findings revealed a SNARC-like effect for tempo, suggesting that tempo and space are associated (De Tommaso & Prpic, 2020; Mariconda et al., 2024). Indeed, people tend to respond faster with a left-key to relatively slow tempos and faster with a right-key to relatively fast tempos. In particular, a work by De Tommaso and Prpic (2020) systematically investigating the SNARC-like effect across different tempo ranges revealed a clear effect only within the fast tempo range. In the present study, the work by De Tommaso and Prpic (2020) was conceptually replicated, further investigating the association between space and tempo across different tempo ranges (40-200 bpm “full”, 40-104 bpm “slow” or 133-201 “fast”). Specifically, Experiment 1 aimed to test the occurrence of a SNARC-like effect in the full tempo range, whereas Experiment 2 aimed to further investigate its occurrence in the slow and fast tempo ranges, separately. Experiment 1 revealed a spatial association in the full tempo range. In Experiment 2 the occurrence of the SNARC-like effect was confirmed in the fast tempo rang but contradictory results emerged in the slow tempo range. Overall, these results highlight a consistent SNARC-like effect for full and fast tempo range, whereas further research is needed to clarify this phenomenon in the slow tempo range.
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