音乐和语言的关系:促进理解,抑或阻碍理解?

The Relationship between Music and Language:Promoting or Hindering Understanding?

本研究通过音乐和语言同时呈现和先后呈现的两种方式,探究语言对音乐理解以及音乐对语言理解的影响效应。结果显示,就音乐理解而言,尽管正确的标题促进了大脑的音乐理解,歌词(同时呈现)和错误标题(先呈现)则使大脑对音乐理解的加工进程滞后。就语言理解而言,当音乐与语言同时呈现,偏好的背景音乐既不会促进、也不会阻碍语言理解,不偏好的背景音乐则会干扰大脑的语言理解。然而,当二者先后呈现,偏好的先导音乐促进了语言理解,不偏好的先导音乐则不会影响大脑的语言理解。这些结果不仅揭示出音乐和语言的复杂关系,而且也体现出大脑对音乐和语言两种影响效应的不同反应模式,最终从认知神经科学角度为音乐和语言的关系提供新的证据。

This study explores the effects of language on music understanding and music on language understanding through two ways of simultaneous presentation and sequential presentation of music and language. The results show that, in terms of music comprehension, although the correct title promotes the brain’s music comprehension, the lyrics(presented at the same time) and the wrong title(presented first) make the brain’s processing of music comprehension lag behind. As far as language understanding is concerned, when music and language are presented at the same time, preferred background music will neither promote nor hinder language understanding, and unfavorable background music will interfere with the brain’s language understanding. However, when the two are presented one after the other, the preferred leading music promotes language understanding, while the unfavorable leading music does not affect the brain’s language understanding. These results not only reveal the complex relationship between music and language, but also reflect the different response patterns of the brain to the effects of music and language, and finally provide new evidence for the relationship between music and language from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.