Allgood Rebecca, Heaton Pamela
Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
Br J Dev Psychol. 2015 Sep;33(3):398-403. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12097. Epub 2015 Jun 17.
Although the configurations of psychoacoustic cues signalling emotions in human vocalizations and instrumental music are very similar, cross-domain links in recognition performance have yet to be studied developmentally. Two hundred and twenty 5- to 10-year-old children were asked to identify musical excerpts and vocalizations as happy, sad, or fearful. The results revealed age-related increases in overall recognition performance with significant correlations across vocal and musical conditions at all developmental stages. Recognition scores were greater for musical than vocal stimuli and were superior in females compared with males. These results confirm that recognition of emotions in vocal and musical stimuli is linked by 5 years and that sensitivity to emotions in auditory stimuli is influenced by age and gender.
尽管在人类发声和器乐中传达情感的心理声学线索配置非常相似，但识别表现中的跨领域联系尚未得到发育方面的研究。220名5至10岁的儿童被要求将音乐片段和发声识别为快乐、悲伤或恐惧。结果显示，总体识别表现随年龄增长而提高，在所有发育阶段，声乐和音乐条件之间都存在显著相关性。音乐刺激的识别分数高于声乐刺激，女性的识别分数高于男性。这些结果证实，5岁时对声乐和音乐刺激中的情感识别是相关联的，并且对听觉刺激中情感的敏感度受年龄和性别的影响。
