心理与行为研究 ›› 2024, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4): 494-500.DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2024.04.009

• 发展与教育心理学 • 上一篇    下一篇

婴儿能否感知音乐情绪?来自预期违背范式的证据

严晨毓1, 徐琴美*,1,2(), 刘涛3, 成梦婷2, 马洒2, 葛雨箐1   

  1. 1. 浙江大学教育学院,杭州 310058
    2. 浙江大学心理与行为科学系,杭州 310058
    3. 上海大学管理学院,上海 200444
  • 收稿日期:2024-04-22 出版日期:2024-07-20 发布日期:2024-07-20
  • 通讯作者: 徐琴美
  • 基金资助:
    浙江大学世界顶尖大学合作计划项目“牛津大学?互联网背景下儿童学习与发展的追踪研究”(100000-11320/130);科技部“高端外国专家引进计划”项目“儿童早期发展与社会政策研究”(188170-540801/828)。

Infant Perception of Emotions from Music: Evidence from Violation-of-Expectation Paradigm

Chenyu YAN1, Qinmei XU*,1,2(), Tao LIU3, Mengting CHENG2, Sa MA2, Yuqing GE1   

  1. 1. Center for Learning and Cognitive Science, College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058
    2. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058
    3. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444
  • Received:2024-04-22 Online:2024-07-20 Published:2024-07-20
  • Contact: Qinmei XU

摘要:

婴儿能否感知到音乐的情绪?以往研究混淆了婴儿对音乐声学特征和情绪特征的加工。本研究采用预期违背范式,观察了10~20个月婴儿听音乐(听觉)后是否形成对表情(视觉)的情绪预期。研究者给婴儿播放快乐或悲伤的音乐后,呈现与音乐情绪一致或不一致的成人表情图片,使用眼动仪记录婴儿对表情图片的注视时长和瞳孔反应。结果发现,在表情与音乐情绪不一致的条件下,婴儿的注视时长更长,可能说明不一致的情况违背了婴儿的预期;在表情与音乐情绪一致的条件下,婴儿的瞳孔扩张程度更大,可能表明音乐和表情能够唤起婴儿相似的情感反应。结果表明,10~20个月的婴儿已经能够感知快乐和悲伤的音乐情绪,并形成情绪预期,用于后续的表情加工。

关键词: 婴儿, 音乐情绪, 预期违背, 眼动

Abstract:

The capacity of infants to perceive emotions in music has been debated. Previous studies often mixed music emotion perception with acoustic processing. To address this, the violation-of-expectation (VoE) paradigm was employed to investigate whether infants aged 10~20 months form emotional expectations about facial expressions after listening to music. Infants were presented with either happy or sad music, followed by adult facial expressions that were either consistent or inconsistent with the emotion of the music. Eye-tracking technology was used to measure infants’ looking time and pupil response to the facial expressions. The results revealed that infants looked significantly longer at facial expressions inconsistent with the emotion of music, which indicates a violation of their expectations. Furthermore, greater pupil dilation was observed when facial expressions were consistent with the emotion of music, which suggests that music and facial expressions may evoke similar emotional responses in infants. These findings indicate that infants as young as 10~20 months can distinguish between happy and sad emotions in music and form emotional expectations that guide their subsequent processing of facial expressions.

Key words: infant, music emotion, violation-of-expectation, eye-tracking