Perception-action coupling in context: developmental processes / pitch structures in music cognition

上下文中的感知-动作耦合：音乐认知中的发展过程/音高结构

• 批准号: 89706-2006
• 负责人: Schmuckler, Mark
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=390737
• 关键词: Perception; action; coupling; context; developmental

My research in perception-action coupling emphasizes how infants and children combine information arising from perceptual systems with motor action, within the larger cognitive, social, and potentially cultural contexts of development. Within this framework my research has focused on a variety of areas, including infants' abilities to recognize their own body position and the movement of their limbs in space (intermodal perception and the development of the self), how vision is employed in keeping one's balance (postural control), how it is we are able to successfully move through a cluttered world (visually-guided locomotion), and the nature of the processes employed by infants and young children in keeping a sense of where they are in the world, relative to important landmarks and environmental events. Generally, this research supports the idea that infants coordinate perceptual system information (vision and hearing) with how they're moving, and how such perceptual-motor coordination modifies, or is modified by, general cognitive and social functioning. My work in musical cognition focuses on how it is that adults are able to understand the complex pitch structures they typically encounter when listening to various forms of music. This work has typically emphasized two complementary pitch structures - the idea of musical tonality, which is the structuring of all of the possible notes one could hear around a central reference tone, and the idea of melodic contour, which involves the patterns of rises and falls in pitch that one typically hears in a melody. Both of these processes have been formally modelled, and these models are currently being extended to incorporate both rhythmic and metrical information, as well in terms of their applicability to other aspects of pitch information, such as harmonic structure. In general, this research provides insights into how it is that adults perceive, respond to, remember, and potentially perform, complex musical information.

我对感知-动作耦合的研究强调婴儿和儿童如何在更大的认知、社会和潜在文化发展背景下将感知系统产生的信息与运动动作结合起来。在这个框架内，我的研究集中在各个领域，包括婴儿识别自己身体位置和四肢在空间中运动的能力（联运感知和自我发展），如何利用视觉来保持平衡（姿势控制），我们如何能够成功地穿过杂乱的世界（视觉引导运动），以及婴儿和幼儿在保持对自己所在位置的感觉时所采用的过程的本质。 与重要地标和环境事件相关的世界上的事件。一般来说，这项研究支持这样的观点：婴儿将感知系统信息（视觉和听觉）与他们的移动方式相协调，以及这种感知-运动协调如何改变一般认知和社会功能，或被一般认知和社会功能所改变。我在音乐认知方面的工作重点是成年人如何能够理解他们在听各种形式的音乐时通常遇到的复杂音高结构。这部作品通常强调两种互补的音高结构——音乐调性的概念，即围绕中心参考音调可以听到的所有可能音符的结构；以及旋律轮廓的概念，涉及人们通常在旋律中听到的音调上升和下降的模式。这两个过程都已被正式建模，并且这些模型目前正在扩展以合并节奏和韵律信息，以及它们对音高信息其他方面（例如和声结构）的适用性。总的来说，这项研究提供了关于成年人如何感知、响应、记忆和潜在地表演复杂音乐信息的见解。