31 triggers perception in a different sense. For synesthetes, everyday activities like reading
or listening to music arouse extraordinary sensations of color, smells, tastes, shapes, and …

Music—as pertaining to the very act of shaping sounds over time during a performance—
engages most of our senses. As audience members in a concert, we hear the musical …

Previous research indicates that systematic music-to-color cross-modal associations in non-
synesthetes are mediated by emotion (eg, Palmer et al., 2013; Langlois et al., under review; …

Introduction Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed
appropriately, can give rise to specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This …

Previous research has provided evidence that cross-modal music-to-color associations are
mediated by emotion, both for classical orchestral music (Palmer et al., 2013) and for a wide …

Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in classical, popular, jazz and
world musics use it to help them rehearse, teach and think about what they do. Yet why is a …

A wide variety of crossmodal correspondences, defined as the often surprising connections
that people appear to experience between simple features, attributes, or dimensions of …

The theory of embodied music cognition states that the perception and cognition of music is
firmly, although not exclusively, linked to action patterns associated with that music. In this …

This thesis investigates the notion of shape in music from a psychological perspective.
Rooted in the embodied cognition research programme, it seeks to understand what kinds of …

Experimental evidence demonstrates robust cross-modal matches between music and
colors that are mediated by emotional associations. US and Mexican participants chose …