Narratives imagined in response to instrumental music reveal culture-bounded intersubjectivity.
Narratives imagined in response to instrumental music reveal culture-bounded intersubjectivity.
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.2110406119
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发表时间：
2022-01-25
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
McAuley JD
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作者：
Margulis EH;Wong PCM;Turnbull C;Kubit BM;McAuley JD
当我们听音乐的时候，我们都在想象同样的事情吗？或者我们的经历是主观的？本研究分析了来自三个地点的622名参与者在一项高度不受约束的任务上的反应相似性：自由反应描述他们在听器乐时想象的故事。引人注目的是，在两个不同地点的参与者，共享一个总体文化想象高度相似的叙述个人摘录。但是，这些相似性模式并没有延伸到具有不同文化的第三地点的参与者所想象的叙事。这项工作表明，音乐通常被认为是一种“抽象的刺激”，可以在听众的脑海中引发共同的故事，但这种主体间性取决于共同的潜在文化。科学文献有时认为音乐是一种抽象的刺激，缺乏明确的意义，而在其他时候则认为它是一种通用语言。在这里，来自两种文化的三个不同地理位置的个体执行了一项高度不受约束的任务：他们在听器乐时提供了他们想象的故事的自由反应描述。来自自然语言处理的工具显示，当听众分享一种潜在的文化时，他们会为相同的音乐摘录提供高度相似的故事，但当他们不这样做时，生成的故事显示出有限的重叠。这些结果描绘了一幅关于音乐力量的更复杂的画面：音乐可以在听众的脑海中产生非常相似的故事，但这些想象的叙述的共享程度取决于听众之间共享文化的程度。因此，音乐既不是抽象的刺激，也不是通用语言，而是具有由文化塑造的语义启示，需要心理学更持续的关注。
Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? This research analyzes the similarity of responses from 622 participants in three locations on a highly unconstrained task: free-response descriptions of the stories they imagined while listening to instrumental music. Strikingly, participants in two separate locations that share an overarching culture imagine highly similar narratives to individual excerpts. But these similarity patterns do not extend to narratives imagined by participants in a third location with a distinct culture. This work shows that music—often considered an “abstract stimulus”—can trigger shared stories in listeners’ minds but that this intersubjectivity depends on a shared underlying culture. The scientific literature sometimes considers music an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, and at other times considers it a universal language. Here, individuals in three geographically distinct locations spanning two cultures performed a highly unconstrained task: they provided free-response descriptions of stories they imagined while listening to instrumental music. Tools from natural language processing revealed that listeners provide highly similar stories to the same musical excerpts when they share an underlying culture, but when they do not, the generated stories show limited overlap. These results paint a more complex picture of music’s power: music can generate remarkably similar stories in listeners’ minds, but the degree to which these imagined narratives are shared depends on the degree to which culture is shared across listeners. Thus, music is neither an abstract stimulus nor a universal language but has semantic affordances shaped by culture, requiring more sustained attention from psychology.
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