Musicians detect pitch violation in a foreign language better than nonmusicians: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence
Musicians detect pitch violation in a foreign language better than nonmusicians: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence
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DOI：
10.1162/jocn.2007.19.9.1453
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Besson, Mireille
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作者：
Marques, Carlos;Moreno, Sylvain;Besson, Mireille
这项研究的目的是确定音乐专业知识是否会影响参与者对外语中不理解的音高变化的检测。为此，向法国成年人、音乐家和非音乐家展示了用葡萄牙语说的句子。句子最后的单词在韵律上是一致的(以正常的音高说)或不一致的(音高增加了35%或120%)。结果表明，当音调偏差很小且难以检测时(35%：微弱的韵律不协调)，音乐家的表现水平高于非音乐家。此外，对韵律一致和不一致句末词的事件相关脑电位所揭示的音高处理时间进程的分析表明，音乐家对韵律一致和不一致结尾的分类平均比非音乐家快300毫秒。这些结果与以前的结果一致，表明音乐专业知识通过提高对音高的辨别力--一个对音乐和语音韵律同样重要的基本声学参数--不仅有助于处理音乐中的音高变化，也有助于处理语言中的音高变化。最后，与以前的结果相比较[Schon，D.，Magne，C.，&Besson，M.演讲的音乐：音乐训练促进了音乐和语言的音调处理。心理生理学，41,341-349,2004]指出语义对声学韵律线索知觉的影响。
The aim of this study was to determine whether musical expertise influences the detection of pitch variations in a foreign language that participants did not understand. To this end, French adults, musicians and nonmusicians, were presented with sentences spoken in Portuguese. The final words of the sentences were prosodically congruous (spoken at normal pitch height) or incongruous (pitch was increased by 35% or 120%). Results showed that when the pitch deviations were small and difficult to detect (35%: weak prosodic incongruities), the level of performance was higher for musicians than for nonmusicians. Moreover, analysis of the time course of pitch processing, as revealed by the event-related brain potentials to the prosodically congruous and incongruous sentence-final words, showed that musicians were, on average, 300 msec faster than nonmusicians to categorize prosodically congruous and incongruous endings. These results are in line with previous ones showing that musical expertise, by increasing discrimination of pitch-a basic acoustic parameter equally important for music and speech prosody-does facilitate the processing of pitch variations not only in music but also in language. Finally, comparison with previous results [Schon, D., Magne, C., & Besson, M. The music of speech: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language. Psychophysiolog, 41, 341-349, 2004] points to the influence of semantics on the perception of acoustic prosodic cues.