The effect of enculturation and implicit attitudes on musical categorization
Author
Zachariasson, Pætur
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2020
Submitted on
2020-05-29
Pages
73
Abstract
This study investigates how musical enculturation and implicit attitudes shape people’s ability to categorize melodies by cultural origin, and whether this behavior resembles a statistical computational model. Ten Danish participants were asked to classify traditional Chinese and German melodies by perceived origin; the melodies had been pre-analyzed with the IDyOM model and selected to vary in stylistic ambiguity. Participants also completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) measuring implicit attitudes toward Chinese and Danish culture. Results showed no statistically significant difference between human and IDyOM classification accuracy. Accuracy was higher for distinct than for ambiguous melodies. These findings suggest that the mechanisms captured by IDyOM plausibly reflect how musical enculturation influences listeners’ categorization of melodic origin. No relationship was observed between implicit attitudes (IAT) and classification performance, either overall or for ambiguous out-of-culture melodies. The data come from a small pilot conducted due to COVID-19 constraints.
Dette studie undersøger, hvordan musikalsk enculturation og implicitte holdninger påvirker menneskers evne til at kategorisere melodier efter kulturel oprindelse, og om denne adfærd ligner en statistisk beregningsmodel. Ti danske deltagere blev bedt om at placere traditionelle kinesiske og tyske melodier efter, hvor de mente, melodierne kom fra; melodierne var forud analyseret med den computationalle model IDyOM og udvalgt til at variere i stilistisk tvetydighed. Deltagerne gennemførte også en Implicit Association Test (IAT), der målte implicitte holdninger til kinesisk og dansk kultur. Resultaterne viste ingen statistisk signifikant forskel mellem deltagernes og IDyOM-modellens klassifikationsnøjagtighed. Derimod var nøjagtigheden højere for tydelige end for tvetydige melodier. Disse fund tyder på, at de mekanismer, IDyOM bygger på, plausibelt afspejler, hvordan musikalsk enculturation former lytteres kategorisering af melodier efter kulturel oprindelse. Der blev ikke fundet sammenhæng mellem implicitte holdninger (IAT) og klassifikationspræstation, hverken samlet eller for tvetydige melodier uden for egen kultur. Data stammer fra et lille pilotstudie gennemført som følge af COVID-19-relaterede begrænsninger.
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