An individual's characteristic rate of counting seconds has been found by Hoagland (1933) to follow the Arrhenius equation for the velocity of reactions. Does one's tempo preference (beats per sec.) follow the same principle as an attempt to reproduce a standard rhythm or interval? We used an electronic metronome with a range of 40 to 200 beats per minute, hand-controlled, and selected our preferred tempi on each of 20 days; each preference waq the mean of 3 ascending and 3 descending series. To support a chemical clock hypothesis for (1) tempo preference, we expected positive correlations with (2) body temperature (degrees C) and (3) barometric pressure (mm. Hg), but no significant correlations with (4) atmospheric temperature (degrees C)
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Rashkis et al. (1962) studied this question.
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