著者

阿部 潤 Abe Jun

出版者

東北学院大学学術研究会

雑誌

東北學院大學論集. 英語英文学 (ISSN:0385406X)

巻号頁・発行日

no.96, pp.1-40, 2012-03

著者

Matsunaga Rie Abe Jun-ichi

出版者

日本心理学会

雑誌

Japanese Psychological Research (ISSN:00215368)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.2, pp.85-95, 2009-05

被引用文献数

1

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A global property (i.e., pitch set) of a melody appears to serve as a primary cue for key identification. Previous studies have proposed specific local properties in a melody (e.g., the augmented fourth, the perfect fifth, etc.) that may function as further cues. However, the role of the latter in key identification is controversial. The present study was designed to investigate what kinds of local properties, if any, function as reliable cues for key identification. Listeners were asked to identify keys for 450 melodies that consisted of the same pitch set but differed in sequential constraints. Using multiple discriminant analyses, we evaluated relative contributions of as many kinds of local properties as possible (e.g., single intervals, single pitch classes in each sequential position, etc.). The results showed that, except for the pitch class of the final tone, for which interpretation should be taken cautiously, none of specific local properties examined contributed significantly to key identification. This finding suggests that, contrary to prior findings, key identification is derived from unidentified properties other than the specific local properties.

著者

Shibata Midori Toyomura Akira Motoyama Hiroki Itoh Hiroaki Kawabata Yasuhiro Abe Jun-ichi

出版者

Elsevier

雑誌

Brain and Language (ISSN:0093934X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.121, no.3, pp.254-260, 2012-06

被引用文献数

29

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Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. In this study, we investigated the neural substrates involved in the comprehension of metaphor and simile using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate whether simile comprehension differs from metaphor comprehension or not. In the metaphor and simile sentence conditions, higher activation was seen in the left inferior frontal gyrus. This result suggests that the activation in both metaphor and simile conditions indicates similar patterns in the left frontal region. The results also suggest that similes elicit higher levels of activation in the medial frontal region which might be related to inference processes, whereas metaphors elicit more right-sided prefrontal activation which might be related to figurative language comprehension.