【英语时差8,16】音乐家能够更好地辨认情感

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Don: Hi Ya?l, what's up? Ya?l: Well Don, I just got off the phone with my friend. She's had a run of bad luck with relationships. She says that from now on she's only going to date musicians! D: Why? She really loves music? Y: No, that's not it. She thinks that somehow musicians are better than non-musicians at understanding emotions. That seems a little far-fetched to me. D: Actually Ya?l, there is some evidence¹ that people with musical training are better at picking out emotional² cues³ in sound than people without the same musical background. A team of neuroscientists at Northwestern University compared the auditory brainstem responses of musicians and non-musicians to different emotion-laden human sounds, like crying babies. The results were not exactly what the researchers expected. They found that musicians' brainstems paid attention to a more complex⁴ part of the sound known⁵ to carry more emotional elements⁶. But their brains tended to de-emphasize the simpler part of the sound, which carries less emotional content. This wasn't true for non-musicians. The more musical experience and training a musician had, the more their nervous systems seemed able to process emotion in sound. The auditory centers in their brainstems showed a greater response than those of the non-musicians to these complex sound cues. Y: Wow Don, that's really interesting. Those results seem to suggest that more experience and expertise⁷ with sound can actually change how your brain works⁸. Maybe my friend is onto something with her plan to only date musicians. D: Well, musicians might be better at hearing the emotions in your voice, but that doesn't mean they're any better at knowing what to do about it!