Engagement of the motor system in the perception and cognition of music

运动系统参与音乐的感知和认知

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-06969
• 负责人: Russo, Frank
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=663940
• 关键词: Engagement; motor; system; perception; cognition

This program of research is intended to contribute to basic knowledge about the role of motor engagement in perception and cognition of music. This will be accomplished through a series of four experiments that feature increasingly complex stimuli. The first three series of experiments focus on motor simulation of vocal melodies, commencing with two-note melodies and ending with expressively performed multi-note melodies. The fourth series of experiments focuses on motor entrainment of rhythm in complete pieces of recorded music. There are two main objectives I hope to achieve with this program of research. First, I intend to determine the extent to which the motor system is engaged when music is presented through unimodal (auditory, visual, tactile) and bimodal input. I assume that the pattern of engagement will be uniquely expressed in regards to stimulus properties, input modality, and an observer's experience. Second, I intend to determine the circumstances under which the engagement of the motor system may impact the processing of music. At this point cognitive neuroscience does not possess a thorough conceptualization of when motor engagement is ancillary and when it is instrumental to perceptual and cognitive processes. We believe that the proposed work is highly novel, providing several opportunities for contributing to knowledge about the functional role of the motor system in perceptual and cognitive processes that transcend music. The proposed work is also poised to develop key insights about the appropriate use of multimodal input in assistive and rehabilitative technologies that are specifically designed to engage the motor system.

这项研究计划旨在促进有关运动参与在音乐感知和认知中的作用的基本知识。这将通过一系列四个以日益复杂的刺激为特色的实验来实现。前三个系列的实验集中于声乐旋律的运动模拟，从双音符旋律开始，以富有表现力的多音符旋律结束。第四个系列的实验集中在完整的录音音乐中运动对节奏的夹带。我希望通过这个研究项目实现两个主要目标。首先，我打算确定当音乐通过单峰(听觉、视觉、触觉)和双峰输入呈现时，运动系统参与的程度。我假设，参与模式将在刺激属性、输入通道和观察者的体验方面得到独特的表达。其次，我打算确定在什么情况下，运动系统的参与可能会影响音乐的处理。在这一点上，认知神经科学还不具备运动参与何时是辅助的，何时是知觉和认知过程的工具的彻底概念化。我们相信，拟议的工作是非常新颖的，提供了几个机会，有助于了解运动系统在超越音乐的知觉和认知过程中的功能作用。拟议的工作还将形成关于在专门设计用于运动系统的辅助和康复技术中适当使用多模式投入的关键见解。