Comparison between language and music
Comparison between language and music
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10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05736.x
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2001-01-01
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Schön, D
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Besson, M;Schön, D
语言和音乐处理之间的相似性和差异是从进化和认知角度研究的。语言和音乐不能被视为单一实体；它们需要分解为不同的组件操作或处理级别。一个核心问题涉及生成语法理论的最重要主张之一，即语言处理的特殊性：为处理语言进行的计算是否依赖于特定的语言过程，还是依赖一般的认知原则？回顾了大脑成像结果的证据，并指出该领域目前需要对可用结果的统计分析，以精确评估该主张。进行了一系列实验，主要使用与事件相关的大脑电位方法，以比较语言和音乐中的不同级别处理。总体而言，当将语言处理的某些方面与音乐中的旋律和谐波处理的某些方面进行比较时，结果有利于语言特异性。相比之下，结果支持以下观点：当将语言中的句法处理与音乐中的谐波处理方面进行比较时，涉及一般认知原理。此外，对时间结构的分析导致语言和音乐的类似效果。这些暂定性结论必须得到其他脑成像结果的支持，以进一步阐明大脑结构功能关系的时空动力学。
Similarities and differences between language and music processing are examined from an evolutionary and a cognitive perspective. Language and music cannot be considered single entities; they need to be decomposed into different component operations or levels of processing. The central question concerns one of the most important claims of the generative grammar theory, that is, the specificity of language processing: do the computations performed to process language rely on specific linguistic processes or do they rely on general cognitive principles? Evidence from brain imaging results is reviewed, noting that this field is currently in need of metanalysis of the available results to precisely evaluate this claim. A series of experiments, mainly using the event-related brain potentials method, were conducted to compare different levels of processing in language and music. Overall, results favor language specificity when certain aspects of semantic processing in language are compared with certain aspects of melodic and harmonic processing in music. By contrast, results support the view that general cognitive principles are involved when aspects of syntactic processing in language are compared with aspects of harmonic processing in music. Moreover, analysis of the temporal structure led to similar effects in language and music. These tentative conclusions must be supported by other brain imaging results to shed further light on the spatiotemporal dynamics of the brain structure-function relationship.