In the first case the concept of time seems convincing but not noteworthy, in the second case it is significant, but untenable. Similarly, Loesch considers Aristotle's concept of time to be problematic. Many participants articulated the view that a solution of the conflict was scarcely offered. Wolfgang Auhagen began his investigations on tempo-feeling while listening to music, after he had encountered the publications of Willem Retze Talsma. Tsalma's view not only directly contradicts exact research of the sources but, moreover, Auhagen stated that the interpreter has the capacity to judge the correct tempo by examining the structure and expression of a piece of music.
Many composers trust the interpreter to find the right tempo automatically.
An empirical investigation of this interesting thesis followed. According to Auhagen, musical movement is more comparable with gestures than with sequences of discrete events. Roetter's thesis contrasts two types of tempo perception, the type experienced while performing music on the one hand, and, on the other, the type experienced while reading music. With electrodes, he also looked at the motor aspect while subjects were reading music. Subjects with distinctive motor activity while reading an unknown piece of music had an especially high level of precision when playing music.