This study investigated how signed performances express musical meaning and emotions. Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing (HoH), and hearing participants watched eight translated signed songs and eight signed lyrics with no influence of music. The participants rated these videos on several emotional and movement dimensions. Even though the videos did not have audible sounds, hearing participants perceived the signed songs as more musical than the signed lyrics. Deaf/HoH participants perceived both types of videos as equally musical, suggesting a different conception of what it means for movement to be musical. We also found that participants’ ratings of spatial height, vertical direction, size, tempo, and fluency related to the performer’s intended emotion and participants’ ratings of valence/arousal. For Deaf/HoH participants, accuracy at identifying emotional intentions was predicted by focusing more on facial expressions than arm movements. Together, these findings add to our understanding of how audience members attend to and derive meaning from different characteristics of movement in performative contexts.

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签名歌曲中的音乐性和情感感知

这项研究调查了签名表演如何表达音乐意义和情感。失聪、听力障碍 (HoH) 和听力正常的参与者观看了八首翻译的签名歌曲和八首签名歌词，不受音乐影响。参与者根据几个情感和运动维度对这些视频进行评分。即使视频没有声音，听力参与者认为签名的歌曲比签名的歌词更具音乐性。Deaf/HoH 参与者认为这两种类型的视频同样具有音乐性，这表明了对音乐性运动意味着什么的不同概念。我们还发现，参与者对空间高度、垂直方向、大小、节奏和流畅度的评分与表演者的预期情绪和参与者对效价/唤醒的评分有关。对于聋人/HoH 参与者，通过更多地关注面部表情而不是手臂运动来预测识别情绪意图的准确性。总之，这些发现增加了我们对观众成员如何关注表演环境中的不同运动特征并从中获得意义的理解。