Department of Psychology, Huron University College at Western, London, ON, Canada.
Department of Psychology and Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Mem Cognit. 2024 Jul;52(5):1142-1151. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01530-x. Epub 2024 Feb 12.
Most individuals, regardless of formal musical training, have long-term absolute pitch memory (APM) for familiar musical recordings, though with varying levels of accuracy. The present study followed up on recent evidence suggesting an association between singing accuracy and APM (Halpern & Pfordresher, 2022, Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(1), 260-269), as well as tonal short-term memory (STM) and APM (Van Hedger et al., 2018, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 879-891). Participants from three research sites (n = 108) completed a battery of tasks including APM, tonal STM, singing accuracy, and self-reported auditory imagery. Both tonal STM and singing accuracy predicted APM, replicating prior results. Tonal STM also predicted singing accuracy, music training, and auditory imagery. Further tests suggested that the association between APM and singing accuracy was fully mediated by tonal STM. This pattern comports well with models of vocal pitch matching that include STM for pitch as a mechanism for sensorimotor translation.
大多数人，无论是否接受过正式的音乐训练，对熟悉的音乐录音都有长期的绝对音高记忆（APM），尽管准确性有所不同。本研究是对最近的证据的跟进，这些证据表明歌唱准确性与 APM（Halpern & Pfordresher，2022，注意力、感知和心理物理学，84（1），260-269）之间存在关联，以及音高短时记忆（STM）和 APM（Van Hedger 等人，2018，实验心理学季刊，71（4），879-891）之间存在关联。来自三个研究地点的参与者（n=108）完成了一系列任务，包括 APM、音高 STM、歌唱准确性和自我报告的听觉意象。音高 STM 和歌唱准确性均预测 APM，这与先前的结果一致。音高 STM 还预测了歌唱准确性、音乐训练和听觉意象。进一步的测试表明，APM 和歌唱准确性之间的关联完全由音高 STM 介导。这种模式与包括 STM 作为传感器运动翻译机制的音高匹配的声乐模型很好地一致。
