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The effect of prototype in listening
to music an empirical appraoch of the notion of imprint Irène Deliège Université de Liège, Belgique Principles of Cue abstraction and Imprint formation have recently been hypothesized as operational in music listening and have been investigated within the framework of grouping and categorization processes. The paper presents these principles, summarizes previous results and presents a new experimental approach to investigating imprint formation. TheImprint is an idea akin to the concept of prototype - i.e. a pattern averaging the values of a broader set - and methodologies developed within prototype research have inspired the procedure employed here. Subjects listened to the first section of a piece and were then presented with items drawn from three groups: items employed in the first section (=Heard), in the piece's second section (=Not Heard) and with slight rhythmic errors (=Modified). Evidence for the imprint hypothesis was observed, the subjects accepting "Not Heard" items as already heard while heavily rejecting "Modified" items. In addition, the effect of different musical characteristics (transpositions, melodic aspects, temporal location in the original motif, etc.) were investigated so as to delimit further the imprint phenomenon and its development during listening. Keywords: Cues abstraction, imprint, prototype, categorisation |
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