Previous research comparing musically trained and untrained individuals has yielded valuable insights into music cognition behaviour. Here, we explore two aspects of musical engagement previously studied separately, auditory-visual correspondences sensorimotor skills, in a novel real-time drawing paradigm. To that end, participants were presented with 18 short sequences pure tones varying pitch, loudness tempo, as well excerpts. Using an electronic graphics tablet, asked to represent the...

There is growing evidence that music can induce a wide range of visual imagery. To date, however, there have been few thorough investigations into the specific content music-induced imagery, and whether listeners exhibit consistency within themselves with one another regarding their imagery content. We recruited an online sample (N = 353) who listened to three orchestral film excerpts representing happy, tender, fearful emotions. For each excerpt, rated how much they were experiencing vivid...

Visual imagery has been proposed to be one of eight mechanisms by which music induces emotion in listeners. Initial research into aphantasia, a condition referring individuals who do not (or only minimally) form visual their mind's eye, suggests that aphantasics may experience reduced emotional experiences response imagined stimuli. In this two-part online investigation, we sought explore the within context listening. Survey 1, compared 51 control terms imagery, liking, and felt intensity...

Dissonant stimuli or with high auditory roughness are often related to jagged shapes, while consonant those low associated curvy and smooth shapes. This empirical study explores auditory-tactile associations for in diverse musical excerpts. We investigate whether harmonic dissonance is perceptually tactile sandpapers varying grit values, emotional dimensions mediate this cross-modal relationship. Participants were asked listen excerpts from several styles, accounting possible effects of...

People are living longer than ever. Loneliness is prevalent across various age groups, posing a serious threat to both wellbeing and health. The social surrogacy hypothesis predicts that people make use of temporary substitutes for interaction with other people. In this qualitative study, we explored the role self-chosen music as surrogate. A sample older adults ( N = 35) was asked name three pieces they would choose them feel better if were feeling very lonely explain their choices. We...

Studies have suggested that visual imagery forms an important part of the listening experience, and might be one mechanisms by which music induces emotions in a listener.However, little is known about content, prevalence functions during listening.To end, online survey was constructed to explore music-related imagery.This included 24 statements based on prior research open question content inner images.Several standardized questionnaires (VVIQ, Gold-MSI) were as well investigate link general...

During a live concert, the mind can wander to unrelated thoughts such as personal concerns or past memories vivid images that are inspired by music. This is an omnipresent phenomenon commonly referred mind-wandering. Psychological research on mind-wandering has explored its main characteristics, frequency, phenomenology, and impact mood, both in laboratory daily life contexts. study aimed harness ecological setting of music concert examine occurrence content mind-wandering, well visual...

Visual imagery, i.e., seeing in the absence of corresponding retinal input, has been linked to visual and motor processing areas brain. Music listening provides an ideal vehicle for exploring neural correlates imagery because it shown reliably induce a broad variety content, ranging from abstract shapes dynamic scenes. Forty-three participants listened with closed eyes twenty-four excerpts music, while 15-channel EEG was recorded, and, after each excerpt, rated extent which they experienced...

As tantalizing as the idea that background music beneficially affects foreign vocabulary learning may seem, there is-partly due to a lack of theory-driven research-no consistent evidence support this notion. We investigated inter-individual differences in effects on learning. Based Eysenck's theory personality we predicted individuals with high level cortical arousal should perform worse when compared silence, whereas low be unaffected by or benefit from it. Participants were tested...

In this article, we report data from two survey studies administered to expert music teachers. Both questionnaires aimed explore teachers' pedagogical and performative practice included open questions elucidating musical skills emerging in groups. The first study focuses on collective teaching settings offered amateurs, jazz musicians, university students with various levels of expertise. second reports teachers based at the Royal College Music, London, where main emphasis is Western...

Journal Article Music and shape Get access Mats B. Küssner King's College London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary Linguistic Computing, Volume 28, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 472–479, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqs071 Published: 15 January 2013

Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed appropriately, can give rise specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This study aimed assess two primary objectives: (1) identifying correspondences emerging from music-induced emotions, (2) examining the predictability of based on association music with visual shapes materials.To achieve this, 176 participants were asked associate materials emotion classes Geneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist scale (GEMIAC)...

The present study proposes a new approach to musical referentiality and its alleged tendency relate bodily experience movement. To address this, we collected corpus of 38,587 words (2,265 verbal descriptions 'associations' or 'imagery' sparked by short excerpts 554 participants from 32 countries). We tested the hypotheses that verbalizations containing clear references bodies and/or their movement will (1) be prevalent in data; (2) tend more creative than not such references; (3) display...