Iwanaga M
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan.
Percept Mot Skills. 1995 Oct;81(2):435-40. doi: 10.1177/003151259508100215.
People prefer music with tempi ranging from 70 to 100 cycles per minute similar to that of adults' heart rate within normal daily situations. Previous studies of the relation between preferred tempi and heart rates using a pure tone also have indicated that subjects tended to prefer tempi similar to their heart rates. The present study examined this relationship using a musical piece (the theme of "It's a small world") as a stimulus. 14 undergraduate women were subjects who searched for their favorite tempi by controlling the musical tempo by themselves. The most preferred tempo was close to their cycle of heart beats, however, tempi that were one and a half and twice as fast as the heart rate were less preferred in the present study than in a previous study using a tone. Subjects preferred faster tempi in the descending series of stimuli than in the ascending one, and hence were influenced by the initial value of the tempo in the trial sequence. The effects due to the differences of the meaning of the stimuli are considered.
人们更喜欢每分钟节拍数在70到100之间的音乐，这与正常日常情况下成年人的心率相似。先前使用纯音对偏好节拍与心率之间关系的研究也表明，受试者倾向于偏好与他们心率相似的节拍。本研究使用一首音乐作品（《小小世界》的主题）作为刺激物来检验这种关系。14名本科女生作为受试者，她们通过自己控制音乐节奏来寻找自己最喜欢的节拍。最偏好的节拍接近她们的心跳周期，然而，在本研究中，比心率快1.5倍和两倍的节拍不如先前使用纯音的研究中那么受欢迎。在刺激的递减序列中，受试者比在递增序列中更喜欢较快的节拍，因此受到试验序列中节拍初始值的影响。考虑了由于刺激意义差异所产生的影响。
