Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery
Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery
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解剖一只蚯蚓：旋律特征和歌曲流行预测不由自主的音乐意象
DOI：
10.1037/aca0000090
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发表时间：
2017-05-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Mullensiefen, Daniel
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作者：
Jakubowski, Kelly;Finkel, Sebastian;Mullensiefen, Daniel
无意识的音乐意象（INMI或“耳虫”）——在一个人的脑海中自发地回忆和重复一个曲调——可以归因于一系列的触发因素，包括记忆联想和最近的音乐接触。目前的研究调查了一首歌的受欢迎程度和旋律特征是否也有助于解释它是否成为INMI，使用了3000名调查参与者命名为INMI的曲调数据集。研究发现，在英国音乐排行榜上取得更大成功和更近期的歌曲被报道为INMI的频率更高。然后，根据受欢迎程度和歌曲风格，将100首经常被命名为INMI的歌曲与100首从未被调查参与者命名为INMI的歌曲进行比对。使用83个统计摘要和基于语料库的旋律特征及自动分类技术对两组曲调进行比较。在一个大的流行音乐语料库中，发现INMI曲调比非INMI曲调有更多共同的全局旋律轮廓和更少共同的旋律转折点之间的平均梯度。INMI曲调也显示出比非INMI曲调更快的平均速度。结果讨论了与文献有关的INMI，音乐记忆，和旋律“朗朗上口”。
Involuntary musical imagery (INMI or "earworms")-the spontaneous recall and repeating of a tune in one's mind-can be attributed to a wide range of triggers, including memory associations and recent musical exposure. The present study examined whether a song's popularity and melodic features might also help to explain whether it becomes INMI, using a dataset of tunes that were named as INMI by 3,000 survey participants. It was found that songs that had achieved greater success and more recent runs in the U.K. music charts were reported more frequently as INMI. A set of 100 of these frequently named INMI tunes was then matched to 100 tunes never named as INMI by the survey participants, in terms of popularity and song style. These 2 groups of tunes were compared using 83 statistical summary and corpus-based melodic features and automated classification techniques. INMI tunes were found to have more common global melodic contours and less common average gradients between melodic turning points than non-INMI tunes, in relation to a large pop music corpus. INMI tunes also displayed faster average tempi than non-INMI tunes. Results are discussed in relation to literature on INMI, musical memory, and melodic "catchiness."