Info for participants

The study will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

The study is conducted in English.

The study will be help at the Centre for Music in the Brain, Universitetsbyen 3, bygning 1710, 8000 Aarhus C. Find it on the map:

You will be asked to participate in some short tasks done individually (approx. 1min each), a main task done in pairs (approx. 40min), and fill out a few questionnaires individually (approx. 10min). The short individual tasks are comprised of two drumming tasks and a listening task. The short individual drumming tasks involve drumming at a comfortable constant rate, and listening to some music and drumming along with it. The listening task involves listening to some music clips and answering some questions about it.

The main task is comprised of a drumming task with another participant previously unknown to you, followed by answering a few questions. The drumming task involves listening to music combined with a metronome through headphones and drumming along with the metronome with the other participant.

We record data in the timing of the drumming, and responses to questionnaires about the task. Video will be recorded during the drumming task in pairs so that anonymous information on body movement can be extracted later. Additional questionnaires are used to assess personality traits.

There are no anticipated physical risks associated with this study. You may find the tasks somewhat challenging, but you may take breaks or exit the study at any time without penalty. You may also experience some discomfort due to the loudness of sounds in your headphones, but we allow you to adjust the volume to a comfortable level. 

There are no direct benefits to you for participating in this study, but the results add to existing generalisable knowledge about social functions of music.

Upon finishing the study, you will be paid DKK 130 as a token of gratitude for your time and effort. The amount is based on standard rates approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Danish Neuroscience Center, Aarhus University.

Participation in this study is completely voluntary, and you may ask to take a short break or withdraw at any time without disadvantages.

All research data will be processed and stored in accordance with the Danish Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. While the data collection for this project is in progress, all data will be pseudonymized and stored under a password in our secure electronic storage system, to which only the currently mentioned research team members have access. Pseudonymized means that all personal identifiable information has been replaced with a code. Identification is only possible with a code key, which is kept apart from the data. Your data will be stored for 5 years after the project has been terminated or published, after which they will be deleted. The data may be accessed by researchers and research interns joining a part of the study in future. If you have further questions about this, you can ask the experimenters and/or contact AU’s data protection officer at dpo@au.dk. 

Video recordings will not be made public. We will extract kinematic features of movements in the form of numbers that represent the position and angle of certain points on the body across time, upon which subsequent analyses will be performed. These data will be strictly non-identifiable. The videos may be used in public presentations, such as scientific conferences and talks. If presented in public, view of the participants’ faces will be fully obscured by blurring and/or other digital edits (e.g., covering with an opaque shape). We do not perform any analysis or form any conclusions on an individual level.

If you have any questions regarding Aarhus University’s guidelines and what the researchers have reported in the register, you are welcome to contact Aarhus University’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) at dpo@au.dk.