Caruso Department of Otolaryngology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Apr;20(4):245-247. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.02.004. Epub 2016 Mar 2.
Music and speech share many acoustic cues but not all are equally important. For example, harmonic pitch is essential for music but not for speech. When birds communicate is their song more like speech or music? A new study contrasting pitch and spectral patterns shows that birds perceive their song more like humans perceive speech.
音乐和语音共享许多声学线索,但并非所有线索都同等重要。例如,谐波音高对于音乐至关重要,但对于语音则不然。鸟类在交流时,它们的歌声更接近言语还是音乐?一项对比音高和频谱模式的新研究表明,鸟类感知自己的歌声更类似于人类感知言语。