Marmel F, Tillmann B, Dowling W J
Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5020, Lyon, France.
Percept Psychophys. 2008 Jul;70(5):841-52. doi: 10.3758/pp.70.5.841.
In this study, we investigated the influence of tonal relatedness on pitch perception in melodies. Tonal expectations for target tones were manipulated in melodic contexts while controlling sensory expectations, thus allowing us to assess specifically the influence oftonal expectations on pitch perception. Three experimentsprovided converging evidence that tonal relatedness modulates pitch perception in nonmusician listeners. Experiment 1 showed, with a rating task, the influence of the tonal relatedness of a target tone on listeners' judgments of tuning/mistuning. Experiment 2 showed, with a priming task, that pitch processing of in-tune tones was faster for tonally related targets than for less related targets. Experiment 3 showed, with a comparison task, that discrimination performance for small mistunings was better when the to-be-compared tones were tonally related to the melodic context. Findings are discussed in relation to psychoacoustic research on contextual pitch perception and to studies showing facilitation of early processing steps via knowledge- and attention-related processes.
在本研究中，我们调查了音调相关性对旋律中音高感知的影响。在旋律情境中操纵对目标音调的音调预期，同时控制感官预期，从而使我们能够具体评估音调预期对音高感知的影响。三个实验提供了一致的证据，表明音调相关性会调节非音乐家听众的音高感知。实验1通过评分任务表明了目标音调的音调相关性对听众调音/走音判断的影响。实验2通过启动任务表明，对于音调相关的目标，与音调不太相关的目标相比，音高正确的音调的音高处理速度更快。实验3通过比较任务表明，当待比较的音调与旋律情境在音调上相关时，对小走音的辨别表现更好。我们结合关于情境音高感知的心理声学研究以及表明通过知识和注意力相关过程促进早期处理步骤的研究来讨论这些发现。
