When did that happen? The dynamic unfolding of perceived musical narrative
When did that happen? The dynamic unfolding of perceived musical narrative
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105180
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2022-06
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3.4
通讯作者：
E. Margulis;Jamal Williams;Rhimmon Simchy-Gross;J. Devin McAuley
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作者：
E. Margulis;Jamal Williams;Rhimmon Simchy-Gross;J. Devin McAuley
人们很容易想象出对器乐的反应。虽然先前的研究已经证实这些叙事表现出广泛的主体间性，但仍不清楚这些想象的故事是非时间的，还是在音乐摘录的时间范围内系统地展开。为了研究感知音乐叙事的动态，我们让参与者首先听16段器乐选段，这些选段之前已经被标准化为兴趣因素。在听的过程中，参与者不断移动滑块，以表明他们对紧张和放松的波动感知。在一个单独的实验环节中，参与者报告了他们在听每个摘录时想象的故事，然后，在最后一次听摘录时，点击鼠标标记他们在正在进行的想象故事中想象新事件的时间点。这些事件标记的时间点并不是均匀地分布在整个摘录中，而是聚集在不同的时刻，这表明想象的叙事在真实的时间中展开，并且需要对听众在音乐中想象事件的时间达成普遍共识。此外，人们倾向于想象事件的时间点与人们倾向于感知音乐张力显著变化的时间点相关，这在第一次实验中单独记录。叙事性高的摘录的对齐程度大于叙事性低的摘录。总之，这些结果表明，音乐可以动态地引导听众的想象力，有显着的主体间性在'当'听到想象的故事事件在一段音乐。
People readily imagine narratives in response to instrumental music. Although previous work has established that these narratives show broad intersubjectivity, it remains unclear whether these imagined stories are atemporal, or unfold systematically over the temporal extent of a musical excerpt. To investigate the dynamics of perceived musical narrative, we had participants first listen to 16 instrumental musical excerpts, which had previously been normed for factors of interest. While listening, participants continuously moved a slider to indicate their fluctuating perceptions of tension and relaxation. In a separate experimental session, participants reported the stories they imagined while listening to each excerpt, and then, while listening to the excerpts a final time, clicked a mouse to mark the time points at which they imagined new events in the ongoing imagined story. The time points of these event markings were not uniformly distributed throughout the excerpts, but were clustered at distinct moments, indicating that imagined narratives unfold in real time and entail general consensus aboutwhenlisteners imagine events in the music. Moreover, the time points at which people tended to imagine events were correlated with the time points at which people tended to perceive salient changes in musical tension, as separately recorded within the first experimental session. The degree of alignment was greater for excerpts high in narrativity than those low in narrativity. Together, these results show that music can dynamically guide a listener's imagination and there is remarkable intersubjectivity in ‘when’ hear imagined story events in a piece of music.