Internal Models and Vocal Imitation

内部模型和声音模仿

• 批准号: 1256964
• 负责人: Peter Pfordresher
• 金额: $ 36.15万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Internal; Models; Vocal; Imitation

The ability to imitate is crucial for human development, for transferring learned abilities from one generation to another, and perhaps even for understanding the intentions and actions of others. Interest in the processes of imitation has a long history but most of the research has focused on the imitation of visually observable actions. This research program focuses instead on vocal imitation, which emerges spontaneously in infants and plays an important communicative role in language acquisition, singing, and other expressive vocalizations. The studies combine behavioral and physiological measures of vocal imitation with a computational model in order to evaluate whether deficits in vocal imitation reflect a failure of auditory imagery or of the complex transformation from auditory perception to coordinated motor action.A potential application of this research is the development of interventions for individuals who have difficulty with vocal imitation, including pedagogical techniques to train "tone deaf" singers. A second potential application is to the learning of tonal languages such as Chinese, for which pitch information is critical.

模仿能力对于人类发展、将学到的能力从一代人转移到另一代人，甚至可能对于理解他人的意图和行为至关重要。对模仿过程的兴趣由来已久，但大多数研究都集中在模仿视觉可观察的动作上。该研究项目的重点是声音模仿，这种模仿在婴儿中自发出现，在语言习得、歌唱和其他表达性发声中发挥着重要的交际作用。这些研究将声音模仿的行为和生理测量与计算模型结合起来，以评估声音模仿的缺陷是否反映了听觉意象的失败或从听觉感知到协调运动动作的复杂转变的失败。这项研究的潜在应用是为有声音模仿困难的个人开发干预措施，包括训练“音盲”歌手的教学技术。第二个潜在的应用是学习汉语等声调语言，对于这些语言来说，音高信息至关重要。