{"pk":25942,"title":"The colors and textures of musical sounds","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99n8q5z5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Langlois","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"","last_name":"Peterson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Palmer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25942/galley/15566/download/"}]}