13:30 - 15:00
Mon-HS2-Talk II-
Mon-Talk II-
Room: HS2
Chair/s:
Philip Schmalbrock, Silvia Selimi, Elena Benini
Humans have to coordinate many different inputs to generate a goal-directed output. Although it seems trivial that we can execute most actions in our everyday life effortlessly - it is not. Several independent processes merge to produce seemingly trivial looking actions. In research on human action control, the processes of binding and retrieval have received increased interest in recent years. In this context, a unified account emerged that strives to specify binding and retrieval in action control (BRAC) over a range of related experimental phenomena and paradigms (Frings et al., 2020). In the first symposium, we take a broad look at research that demonstrates the far reach of action control. The interconnection between learning and action control processes is investigated in two talks regarding performance feedback and associative learning. The following talk is concerned with the role of action control in the auditory domain, specifically in music. The talk after this presents findings on the role of binding and retrieval processes in the context of task switching. The final talk looks at the neural correlates of action control. The contributions presented in both symposia underline the diversity of the research areas investigating human action control and highlight the prominent role of binding and retrieval processes for moving forward in understanding goal-directed human action.
Binding Music: Integration of two-tone chords into event files
Mon-HS2-Talk II-04
Presented by: Katrin Köllnberger
Katrin Köllnberger 1, Johanna Bogon 1, 2, Gesine Dreisbach 1
1 Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany, 2 Media Informatics Group, University of Regensburg, Germany
The ability to perceive an object as one coherent representation is due to binding processes between its features. Empirically, such binding processes can be measured via partial repetition costs, a performance pattern of faster reaction times when either all features of a given object repeat or switch as compared to the repetition (or switch) of only one feature. Feature binding has been shown for a large number of features in the visual and auditory domain. The purpose of the present two experiments was to investigate whether such binding effects can also be found in the domain of music. More precisely, we aimed to examine whether the tones of a two-tone chord are temporarily integrated into a music event-file. In the first experiment, we applied a pitch classification task. The auditory stimulus consisted of two simultaneous tones (one out of two upper tones of different pitch, and one out of two lower tones of different pitch). Participants responded with a left or right keypress to the pitch of the upper tone. The two-tone chord was always consonant. The lower tone was irrelevant but could also be low or high. Analyses of reaction times and error rates revealed partial repetition costs indicating binding: performance was better when both tones repeated or alternated relative to partial repetitions (only the upper or the lower tone repeated). The results thus show that two consonant tones are integrated into one event-file. In a second experiment, we found that this also holds true for dissonant harmonies.
Keywords: feature-binding, partial-repetition costs, music perception, binding and retrieval, action control