Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music. Poulin-Charronnat, B., Bigand, E., Madurell, F., & Peereman, R. Cognition, 94(3):B67-78, 2005. doi abstract bibtex It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise [Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A., & Madurell, F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music. Cognition, 81, B11-B20]. The present study goes a step further by investigating how musical harmony may potentially interfere with the processing of words in vocal music. Eight-chord sung sentences were presented, their last word being either semantically related (La girafe a un tres grand cou, The giraffe has a very long neck) or unrelated to the previous linguistic context (La girafe a un tres grand pied, The giraffe has a very long foot). The target word was sung on a chord that acted either as a referential tonic chord or as a congruent but less referential subdominant chord. Participants performed a lexical decision task on the target word. A significant interaction was observed between semantic and harmonic relatedness suggesting that music modulates semantic priming in vocal music. Following Jones' dynamic attention theory, we argue that music can modulate semantic priming in vocal music, by modifying the allocation of attentional resource necessary for linguistic computation.
@Article{Poulin-Charronnat2005,
author = {B\'en\'edicte Poulin-Charronnat and Emmanuel Bigand and Fran\c{c}ois Madurell and Ronald Peereman},
journal = {Cognition},
title = {Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music.},
year = {2005},
number = {3},
pages = {B67-78},
volume = {94},
abstract = {It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing
of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise
[Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A., & Madurell,
F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in
vocal music. Cognition, 81, B11-B20]. The present study goes a step
further by investigating how musical harmony may potentially interfere
with the processing of words in vocal music. Eight-chord sung sentences
were presented, their last word being either semantically related
(La girafe a un tres grand cou, The giraffe has a very long neck)
or unrelated to the previous linguistic context (La girafe a un tres
grand pied, The giraffe has a very long foot). The target word was
sung on a chord that acted either as a referential tonic chord or
as a congruent but less referential subdominant chord. Participants
performed a lexical decision task on the target word. A significant
interaction was observed between semantic and harmonic relatedness
suggesting that music modulates semantic priming in vocal music.
Following Jones' dynamic attention theory, we argue that music can
modulate semantic priming in vocal music, by modifying the allocation
of attentional resource necessary for linguistic computation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2004.05.003},
keywords = {Humans, Music, Non-U.S. Gov't, Phonation, Reaction Time, Research Support, Semantics, 15617668},
}
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