Vainio L, Wikström A, Vainio M
Phonetics and speech synthesis research group, Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 38, Helsinki, Finland.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2025 Mar;253:104754. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104754. Epub 2025 Jan 24.
Previous investigations have shown pitch-based correspondences with various perceptual and conceptual attributes. The present study reveals two novel pitch-based correspondences with highly abstract concepts. Three experiments with varying levels of implicitness of the association task showed that the concepts of future and in are associated with high-pitch sounds, while past and out are associated with low-pitch sounds. Hence, pitch-based correspondences can be observed even with temporal concepts that cannot be unambiguously represented in any perceptual format, at least, without spatial metaphorization. The correspondence effects were even more robust with the abstract temporal concepts of future/past than with more concrete spatial concepts of in/out. We propose that these effects might emerge from semantic multimodal abstraction processes mediated by affective dimensions of particular concepts.
先前的研究表明，音高与各种感知和概念属性之间存在对应关系。本研究揭示了两种与高度抽象概念相关的基于音高的新对应关系。三项关联任务隐含程度不同的实验表明，“未来”和“在……之内”的概念与高音调声音相关联，而“过去”和“在……之外”与低音调声音相关联。因此，即使是那些至少在没有空间隐喻化的情况下无法以任何感知形式明确表征的时间概念，也能观察到基于音高的对应关系。与“在……之内/之外”这种更具体的空间概念相比，“未来/过去”这种抽象时间概念的对应效应更为显著。我们认为，这些效应可能源于由特定概念的情感维度介导的语义多模态抽象过程。
