Keller Peter E, Koch Iring
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Leipzig, Germany.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2008 Feb;61(2):275-91. doi: 10.1080/17470210601160864.
The hypothesis that planning music-like sequential actions involves anticipating their auditory effects was investigated in a series of experiments. Participants with varying levels of musical experience responded to each of four colour-patch stimuli by producing a unique sequence of three taps on three vertically aligned keys. Each tap triggered a tone in most experimental conditions. Response--effect (key-to-tone) mapping was either compatible--taps on the top, middle, and bottom keys triggered high, medium, and low pitched tones, respectively--or incompatible--key-to-tone mapping was scrambled, reversed, or neutral (taps on different keys triggered the same tone). The results suggest that action planning was faster with compatible than with incompatible mappings (and faster than with no tones). Furthermore, the size of this compatibility effect grew with increasing musical experience, which suggests that improvements in auditory imagery ability that typically accompany musical training may augment the role of anticipatory auditory-effect representations during planning.
在一系列实验中，对规划类似音乐的连续动作涉及预期其听觉效果这一假设进行了研究。具有不同音乐经验水平的参与者通过在三个垂直对齐的按键上产生独特的三次敲击序列，对四种颜色块刺激中的每一种做出反应。在大多数实验条件下，每次敲击都会触发一个音调。反应-效果（按键-音调）映射要么是兼容的——顶部、中间和底部按键的敲击分别触发高音、中音和低音——要么是不兼容的——按键-音调映射被打乱、颠倒或中性（不同按键的敲击触发相同音调）。结果表明，兼容映射的动作规划比不兼容映射的动作规划更快（且比无音调时更快）。此外，这种兼容性效应的大小随着音乐经验的增加而增大，这表明通常伴随音乐训练的听觉意象能力的提高可能会增强预期听觉效果表征在规划过程中的作用。
