Scientists figured out why you sing out of tune
If you love music, but can’t carry a tune, you can blame it on subvocalization.
Subvocalization is the act of moving vocal and facial muscles as if you were making the actual sounds. For example, it’s what people do when they’re reading a very complex sentence , and quietly mouth the words as if they’re reading out loud. This can be so subtle that it’s not even visible, but you’re still moving the muscles that would be involved in speaking the words. Or singing, in this case.
So, auditory imagery has something to do with singing in tune, but that wasn’t the full story. The participants were also hooked up to a set of sensors that detected small muscle movements on their forehead, lip and throat. This movement indicated subvocalization, or quietly singing the tune in their head after they listened. The worst singers generally showed the most muscle activity in this experiment, which seemed to suggest that subvocalizing isn’t helping them stay in tune.
“It would seem like there might be an issue in relating what they perceive musically to the motor planning that’s required to sing,”Somewhere in the process between listening to a melody and singing it, something goes wrong. And this even happens to people who can hear pitch just fine -- they just can’t reproduce the sound.
Other studies have also linked movement to auditory imagery and motor activity. In 2012, researchers at the University of Oxford asked people to play an easy piano melody and monitored their brain activity. Theythat areas of the brain linked to motor control were activated when people listened to a melody, but this activity was less after they had already tried playing the piece. If the same applies to singing, practice might lead to less subvocalization.
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