Deroy Ophelia, Fasiello Irène, Hayward Vincent, Auvray Malika
School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2016 Aug;42(8):1204-14. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000152. Epub 2016 Mar 7.
The aim of the present study is to investigate whether the crossmodal correspondence robustly documented between auditory pitch and visual elevation has analogues in the audio-tactile domain. Across 4 experiments, the compatibility effects between intuitively congruent pairs of stimuli (i.e., outward tactile movement, going from the inside of the finger toward the fingertip and increasing pitch, or inward tactile movement and decreasing pitch) and incongruent pairs stimuli (i.e., the reverse associations) were measured. Two methods were compared to assess the behavioral effects of such a correspondence: One where participants have to respond to either the auditory or tactile stimulus presented simultaneously, while ignoring the other (speeded classification task), and the other where the auditory and tactile stimuli are presented sequentially and associated to different response buttons (implicit association test). No significant compatibility effect was observed under the speeded classification task. The implicit association test revealed a significant compatibility effect. This effect was similar in the conditions where the finger was placed vertically and horizontally. However, this implicit association between pitch and tactile movements was not observed in blind participants. These results have methodological implications for the explanation and testing of crossmodal correspondences, and the origin of the widely discussed association between pitch and vertical elevation. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究的目的是调查在听觉音高和视觉高度之间得到有力证明的跨通道对应关系在听觉-触觉领域是否存在类似情况。在4个实验中，测量了直观上一致的刺激对（即向外的触觉运动，从手指内部向指尖移动且音高增加，或向内的触觉运动且音高降低）和不一致的刺激对（即相反的关联）之间的兼容性效应。比较了两种方法来评估这种对应关系的行为效应：一种是参与者必须对同时呈现的听觉或触觉刺激做出反应，而忽略另一个刺激（快速分类任务），另一种是听觉和触觉刺激依次呈现并与不同的反应按钮相关联（内隐联想测验）。在快速分类任务中未观察到显著的兼容性效应。内隐联想测验显示出显著的兼容性效应。在手指垂直和水平放置的条件下，这种效应是相似的。然而，在盲人参与者中未观察到音高与触觉运动之间的这种内隐关联。这些结果对跨通道对应关系的解释和测试以及音高与垂直高度之间广泛讨论的关联的起源具有方法学意义。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
