When people make cross-modal matches from classical music to colors, they choose colors
whose emotional associations fit the emotional associations of the music, supporting the …

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

Crossmodal associations may arise at neurological, perceptual, cognitive, or emotional
levels of brain processing. Higher-level modal correspondences between musical timbre …

Synesthetes are famed for their ability to “hear” colors or “see” sound. However, the
widespread use of such colorful phrases as “white noise” and “the blues” suggests that …

Three experiments tested the proposal that music–color associations are mediated by
emotional connotations as suggested by Palmer and collaborators (2013, 2016). Experiment …

Prior research has shown that non-synesthetes' color associations to classical orchestral
music are strongly mediated by emotion. The present study examines similar cross-modal …

Several recent studies have demonstrated that people intuitively make consistent matches
between classical music and specific wines. It is not clear, however, what governs such …

A prevalent conceptual metaphor is the association of the concepts of good and evil with
brightness and darkness, respectively. Music cognition, like metaphor, is possibly embodied …

Listening to music prompts strong emotional reactions in the listeners but relatively little
research has focused on individual differences. This study addresses the role of musical …

What is the nature of the feelings evoked by music? We investigated how people represent
the subjective experiences associated with Western and Chinese music and the form in …