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    "pk": 25942,
    "title": "The colors and textures of musical sounds",
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    "abstract": "Music-to-color associations show emotionally-mediated cross-modal correspondences (Palmer et al., 2013): people\nchoose colors as going best with music when their emotional content matches (e.g., happy-looking colors go best with happysounding\nmusic). What musical/acoustic features underlie such correspondences? And are music-to-texture correspondences\nalso evident? Experiments using highly-controlled melodies that varied in tonality (major/minor), note-rate (fast/medium/slow),\nand register (high/low) revealed systematic correspondences between musical/acoustic and colorimetric dimensions: faster,\nmajor, higher-pitched melodies were associated with more saturated, lighter, yellower colors, whereas slower, minor, lowerpitched\nmelodies were associated with more muted, darker, bluer colors. Further experiments revealed emotion-mediated\nassociations from music to texture, although agitated/calm and angry/not-angry emotions were stronger with textures, whereas\nhappy/sad emotions were stronger with colors. Systematic associations were also evident between visual/spatial features of\ntexture (e.g., Sharp/Smooth, Curved/Straight) and musical dimensions (e.g., note-rate and piano/cello timbre).",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Langlois",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Peterson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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        {
            "first_name": "Stephen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Palmer",
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            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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