Universal interpretations of vocal music.
Universal interpretations of vocal music.
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.2218593120
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发表时间：
2023-09-12
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Mehr, Samuel A.
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作者：
Yurdum, Lidya;Singh, Manvir;Glowacki, Luke;Vardy, Thomas;Atkinson, Quentin D.;Hilton, Courtney B.;Sauter, Disa;Krasnow, Max M.;Mehr, Samuel A.
音乐被认为存在于每一种人类文化中，但它在世界范围内差异很大，并且出现在高度多样化的背景中：从带有协调的集体舞蹈的复杂仪式到非正式的私人摇篮曲。人类如何理解我们听到的音乐？我们检验了这样一个假设：音乐的普遍声学特性使其能够跨文化理解。全球多元化的听众群体，包括许多非英语语言的母语人士，听到了许多不同社会录制的歌曲。他们报告了对每首歌原始行为背景的直觉。他们的评分基本上是准确的，彼此一致，并且不是用他们与歌手的语言或地理接近程度来解释的，这表明音乐多样性是由普遍的心理现象所支撑的。尽管不同文化的音乐存在差异，但某些类型的人类歌曲具有共同的声学特征。例如，舞曲往往响亮且有节奏，而摇篮曲则往往安静且悠扬。基于这些音乐特征，人类对歌曲行为背景的感知敏感性表明音乐的基本属性是相互理解的，独立于语言或文化内容。然而，这些影响是否反映了对声乐的普遍解释尚不清楚，因为之前的研究几乎只关注英语参与者，这个群体并不代表人类。在这里，我们报告了生活在与互联网相连的工业化社会（n = 5,516 名以 28 种语言为母语的人）或接触全球媒体有限的小规模社会（n = 116 名以三种非英语语言为母语的人）的参与者对用不熟悉的语言制作的不熟悉的歌曲的行为背景的共同直觉。参与者聆听从人类声乐代表性样本中随机选择的歌曲，这些歌曲最初用于四种行为情境，并评估他们认为该歌曲在每种情境中的使用程度。工业化社会和小规模社会的听众都能推断出舞曲、摇篮曲和治愈歌曲的背景，但不能推断出情歌的背景。在队列内部和队列之间，推论是相互一致的。此外，听众和歌手之间语言或地理上的接近程度的增加仅最低限度地提高了推论的准确性。这些结果表明，三种常见音乐形式的行为背景在跨文化上是可以相互理解的，并且意味着由文化进化形成的音乐多样性仍然基于一些普遍的感知现象。
Music is thought to exist in every human culture, but it varies widely worldwide and appears in highly diverse contexts: from intricate ceremonies with coordinated group dances to informal, private lullabies. How do humans make sense of the music we hear? We test the hypothesis that universal acoustic properties of music make it intelligible across cultures. A globally diverse group of listeners, including native speakers of many non-English languages, heard songs recorded in many different societies. They reported their intuitions about the original behavioral context of each song. Their ratings were largely accurate, consistent with one another, and not explained by their linguistic or geographic proximity to the singer—showing that musical diversity is underlain by universal psychological phenomena. Despite the variability of music across cultures, some types of human songs share acoustic characteristics. For example, dance songs tend to be loud and rhythmic, and lullabies tend to be quiet and melodious. Human perceptual sensitivity to the behavioral contexts of songs, based on these musical features, suggests that basic properties of music are mutually intelligible, independent of linguistic or cultural content. Whether these effects reflect universal interpretations of vocal music, however, is unclear because prior studies focus almost exclusively on English-speaking participants, a group that is not representative of humans. Here, we report shared intuitions concerning the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar songs produced in unfamiliar languages, in participants living in Internet-connected industrialized societies (n = 5,516 native speakers of 28 languages) or smaller-scale societies with limited access to global media (n = 116 native speakers of three non-English languages). Participants listened to songs randomly selected from a representative sample of human vocal music, originally used in four behavioral contexts, and rated the degree to which they believed the song was used for each context. Listeners in both industrialized and smaller-scale societies inferred the contexts of dance songs, lullabies, and healing songs, but not love songs. Within and across cohorts, inferences were mutually consistent. Further, increased linguistic or geographical proximity between listeners and singers only minimally increased the accuracy of the inferences. These results demonstrate that the behavioral contexts of three common forms of music are mutually intelligible cross-culturally and imply that musical diversity, shaped by cultural evolution, is nonetheless grounded in some universal perceptual phenomena.
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发表时间：
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影响因子：
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影响因子：
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