Hearing elliptic movements reveals the imprint of action on prototypical geometries

Autor: Etienne Thoret, Mitsuko Aramaki, Lionel Bringoux, Sølvi Ystad, Richard Kronland-Martinet
Přispěvatelé: Perception, Représentations, Image, Son, Musique (PRISM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB), Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey (ISM), ANR-10-CORD-0003,MetaSon,Métaphores sonores(2010), ANR-14-CE24-0018,SoniMove,Informer, Guider et Apprendre l'Action par le Son(2014), ANR-16-CONV-0002,ILCB,ILCB: Institute of Language Communication and the Brain(2016), ANR-11-LABX-0036,BLRI,Brain & LANGUAGE Research Institute(2011), ANR-11-IDEX-0001,Amidex,INITIATIVE D'EXCELLENCE AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE(2011)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Cognition
Cognition, 2023, 238, pp.105478. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105478⟩
ISSN: 0010-0277
1873-7838
Popis: Within certain categories of geometric shapes, prototypical exemplars that best characterize the category have been evidenced. These geometric prototypes are classically identified through the visual and haptic perception or motor production and are usually characterized by their spatial dimension. However, whether prototypes can be recalled through the auditory channel has not been formally investigated. Here we address this question by using auditory cues issued from timbre-modulated friction sounds evoking human drawing elliptic movements. Since non-spatial auditory cues were previously found useful for discriminating distinct geometric shapes such as circles or ellipses, it is hypothesized that sound dynamics alone can evoke shapes such as an exemplary ellipse. Four experiments were conducted and altogether revealed that a common elliptic prototype emerges from auditory, visual, and motor modalities. This finding supports the hypothesis of a common coding of geometric shapes according to biological rules with a prominent role of sensory-motor contingencies in the emergence of such prototypical geometry.
Databáze: OpenAIRE