In poetry, if meter has to help memory, it takes its time.
| Autor: | Andreetta S; Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, 34136, Italy., Soldatkina O; Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, 34136, Italy., Boboeva V; Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, 34136, Italy.; Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK., Treves A; Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, 34136, Italy. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Open research Europe [Open Res Eur] 2023 Feb 23; Vol. 1, pp. 59. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 23 (Print Publication: 2021). |
| DOI: | 10.12688/openreseurope.13663.2 |
| Abstrakt: | To test the idea that poetic meter emerged as a cognitive schema to aid verbal memory, we focused on classical Italian poetry and on three components of meter: rhyme, accent, and verse length. Meaningless poems were generated by introducing prosody-invariant non-words into passages from Dante's Divina Commedia and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. We then ablated rhymes, modified accent patterns, or altered the number of syllables. The resulting versions of each non-poem were presented to Italian native speakers, who were then asked to retrieve three target non-words. Surprisingly, we found that the integrity of Dante's meter has no significant effect on memory performance. With Ariosto, instead, removing each component downgrades memory proportionally to its contribution to perceived metric plausibility. Counterintuitively, the fully metric versions required longer reaction times, implying that activating metric schemata involves a cognitive cost. Within schema theories, this finding provides evidence for high-level interactions between procedural and episodic memory. Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed. (Copyright: © 2023 Andreetta S et al.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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