Do you hear what I hear? Perceived narrative constitutes a semantic dimension for music
Do you hear what I hear? Perceived narrative constitutes a semantic dimension for music
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104712
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发表时间：
2021-04-10
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3.4
通讯作者：
Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
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作者：
McAuley, J. Devin;Wong, Patrick C. M.;Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth
音乐吸引了长期的争论围绕其能力沟通没有文字，但很少有实证工作已经解决了这个问题。在这里，534名来自美国和中国偏远地区的参与者参加了两个实验，使用一种新的范式来研究叙事感知作为音乐的语义维度。参与者听了无声的音乐片段，并确定两个故事中的哪一个是正确的匹配。正确的匹配是来自美国或中国的个人之前想象的故事，以回应每一个摘录，而箔是正确的匹配其他测试摘录之一。结果显示，来自阿肯色州和密歇根州的听众很容易将音乐与阿肯色州听众产生的故事相匹配。无言的音乐，那么，远离抽象的刺激，似乎产生共享，具体的叙事感知的听众。这些看法是稳定和强大的文化内的参与者，即使在地理上不同的地方（如阿肯色州和密歇根州）。这一发现驳斥了音乐是一种无情感媒介的观点。相比之下，美国和中国的参与者在为来自另一种文化的参与者生成的故事确定正确的故事-音乐匹配方面遇到了更大的困难，这表明必须存在充分共享的经验库才能产生强烈的主体间性。
Music has attracted longstanding debate surrounding its capacity to communicate without words, but little empirical work has addressed the topic. Here, 534 participants in the US and a remote region of China participated in two experiments using a novel paradigm to investigate narrative perceptions as a semantic dimension of music. Participants listened to wordless musical excerpts and determined which of two presented stories was the correct match. Correct matches were stories previously imagined by individuals from the US or China in response to each of the excerpts, while foils were correct matches to one of the other tested excerpts. Results revealed that listeners from Arkansas and Michigan had no difficulty matching the music with stories generated by Arkansas listeners. Wordless music, then, far from an abstract stimulus, seems to engender shared, concrete narrative perceptions in listeners. These perceptions are stable and robust for within-culture participants, even at geographically distinct locales (e.g. Arkansas and Michigan). This finding refutes the notion that music is an asemantic medium. In contrast, participants in both the US and China had more difficulty determining correct story-music matches for stories generated by participants from another culture, suggesting that a sufficiently shared pool of experiences must exist for strong intersubjectivity to arise.