How music touches: Musical parameters and listeners' audio-tactile metaphorical mappings
How music touches: Musical parameters and listeners' audio-tactile metaphorical mappings
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DOI：
10.1177/0305735610377592
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Rothschild, Inbar
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作者：
Eitan, Zohar;Rothschild, Inbar
虽然触觉和声音的关系是音乐表演的核心，而听觉-触觉隐喻与音乐话语有关，但很少有实证研究系统地研究音乐参数，如音高、响度、音色及其相互作用如何影响听觉-触觉隐喻映射。在这项研究中，40名参与者(20名受过音乐训练的人)对六种二分触觉隐喻(尖锐-钝，光滑-粗糙，软-硬，轻-重，暖-冷和湿-干)在音高、音量、器乐音色(小提琴和长笛)和颤音等不同方面的适当性进行了评分。结果(重复测量Manova)表明，触觉隐喻与所考察的所有音乐变量密切相关。例如，较高的音调被评为比较低音调明显更尖锐、更粗糙、更硬、更冷、更干燥和更轻。我们考虑了这些发现的几个互补的描述：触觉和听觉感觉加工之间的心理物理类比；基于日常经验中声音来源的触觉和听觉质量之间的相关性的经验类比；以及基于抽象语义维度的类比，特别是效力和活动。
Though the relationship of touch and sound is central to music performance, and audio-tactile metaphors are pertinent to musical discourse, few empirical studies have investigated systematically how musical parameters such as pitch height, loudness, timbre and their interactions affect auditory-tactile metaphorical mappings. In this study, 40 participants (20 musically trained) rated the appropriateness of six dichotomous tactile metaphors (sharp-blunt, smooth-rough, soft-hard, light-heavy, warm-cold and wet-dry) to 20 sounds varying in pitch height, loudness, instrumental timbre (violin vs. flute) and vibrato. Results (repeated measures MANOVA) suggest that tactile metaphors are strongly associated with all musical variables examined. For instance, higher pitches were rated as significantly sharper, rougher, harder, colder, drier and lighter than lower pitches. We consider several complementary accounts of the findings: psychophysical analogies between tactile and auditory sensory processing; experiential analogies, based on correlations between tactile and auditory qualities of sound sources in daily experience; and analogies based on abstract semantic dimensions, particularly potency and activity.