Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language
Rhythmic Effects of Syntax Processing in Music and Language
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01762
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发表时间：
2015-11-23
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Loui, Psyche
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作者：
Jung, Harim;Sontag, Samuel;Loui, Psyche
音乐和语言是人类的认知和神经功能，它们有许多结构上的相似之处。过去的理论包括音乐和语言中句法处理之间的神经资源共享（Patel，2003），以及控制一般时间处理的动态注意网络（Large和Jones，1999）。两者都对音乐和语言处理过程进行预测。本研究的实验一在阅读时间范式下考察了节奏期待与音乐句法和语言句法的关系。刺激（改编自Slevc等人，2009）是被分解成片段的句子;每个句子片段与音乐和弦配对，并以固定的起始间隔呈现。语言语法违规出现在花园小径设计。在花园小径句子的关键区域，即，在处理句法意外性的特定片段中，对语言、音乐和节奏的期望违反分别被独立地操纵：音乐期望通过呈现和弦来操纵，节奏期望通过扰乱固定的起始间隔来操纵，使得句子片段和音乐和弦出现得早或晚。记录每个句子片段的阅读时间，并比较语言、音乐和节奏预期。结果表明节奏预期和语言句法预期对阅读时间有主要影响。音乐和语言句法之间的相互作用的节奏也有影响：音乐和语言句法的违规行为的影响表现出显着的互动，只有在节奏预期的审判。为了测试我们的实验设计对节奏和语言预期的影响，独立于音乐句法，实验2使用相同的实验范式，但音乐因素被消除，语言刺激只是无声地呈现，节奏预期在关键区域被操纵。实验2复制的节奏和语言的影响，没有相互作用。总之，研究结果表明，音乐和语言的句法处理的相互作用取决于节奏的预期，并支持合并的音乐和语言的句法处理与动态模型的注意力夹带的理论。
Music and language are human cognitive and neural functions that share many structural similarities. Past theories posit a sharing of neural resources between syntax processing in music and language (Patel, 2003), and a dynamic attention network that governs general temporal processing (Large and Jones, 1999). Both make predictions about music and language processing over time. Experiment 1 of this study investigates the relationship between rhythmic expectancy and musical and linguistic syntax in a reading time paradigm. Stimuli (adapted from Slevc et al., 2009) were sentences broken down into segments; each sentence segment was paired with a musical chord and presented at a fixed inter onset interval. Linguistic syntax violations appeared in a garden-path design. During the critical region of the garden-path sentence, i.e., the particular segment in which the syntactic unexpectedness was processed, expectancy violations for language, music, and rhythm were each independently manipulated: musical expectation was manipulated by presenting out chords and rhythmic expectancy was manipulated by perturbing the fixed inter-onset interval such that the sentence segments and musical chords appeared either early or late. Reading times were recorded for each sentence segment and compared for linguistic, musical, and rhythmic expectancy. Results showed main effects of rhythmic expectancy and linguistic syntax expectancy on reading time. There was also an effect of rhythm on the interaction between musical and linguistic syntax: effects of violations in musical and linguistic syntax showed significant interaction only during rhythmically expected trials. To test the effects of our experimental design on rhythmic and linguistic expectancies, independently of musical syntax, Experiment 2 used the same experimental paradigm, but the musical factor was eliminated linguistic stimuli were simply presented silently, and rhythmic expectancy was manipulated at the critical region. Experiment 2 replicated effects of rhythm and language, without an interaction. Together, results suggest that the interaction of music and language syntax processing depends on rhythmic expectancy, and support a merging of theories of music and language syntax processing with dynamic models of attentional entrainment.