Auditory synesthesias

Afra, Pegah

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-62630-1.00022-6

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“…The exploration of this field can be traced back to the initial interest in synesthesia, a rare neurological condition in which a stimulus in one sensory domain (often called the inducer) elicit sensation in a different sensory domain (often called the concurrent) 8 . Starting from the pioneering study by Sabaneev (1929) 9 , several studies investigated how individuals associate colours with sounds [10][11][12][13] .…”

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Sadness influences brightness, amazement favours curvilinearity, tenderness sets the shades of green: how musical emotions shape image making

Cenerini,

Vollero,

Stefano

et al. 2023

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In the growing literature on audiovisual correspondences, the question of how music influences image making has receivedlittle attention. To fill this gap, in this study we investigated the effect of music-induced emotions on several key parameters thatdefine drawing. Hypothesising that drawing while listening to emotionally evocative music would result in emotionally coherentartwork, we designed a two-phase experiment to test this hypothesis. In the first phase, participants listened to ten originalsongs and were asked to create an image by changing various parameters (e.g., hue, shape, dimension). They were alsoasked to describe the emotional response elicited by the auditory stimuli by giving a score to a set of 9 musical emotions(amazement, solemnity, tenderness, nostalgia, calmness, power, joyful activation, tension, and sadness). In the second phase,participants were shown images in which one of the image parameter was set at a extreme value and the others were moderate,and asked to describe the emotions elicited by the images. This approach allowed us to gain data on the association betweenmusic and images, music and emotions, and images and emotions, and therefor assess whether paired audiovisual contentsare associated with the same emotional meaning. Findings reveal that auditory sadness correlates with visual brightnessand with the spatial dispersion of visual objects. Sadness also influences the saturation of light. Amazement shared manysimilarities with sadness in terms of influenced parameters, namely brightness and dispersion, and was correlated with thecolour green, typically evoking solemnity and tenderness. This study sheds novel light on the role of emotions in the mediationof auditory-visual associations.

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