The quality of a concert hall primarily depends on its acoustics. But does visual input also
have an impact on musical enjoyment? Does the color of ambient lighting modulate the …

In this work, we study the emotional link between music and color as well as the relationship
that pleasure and familiarity have with music-evoked emotions, emphasizing on what …

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

The integration of music sounds with concurrent visual scenes or objects is a occurrence in
our daily lives, attracting the attention of researchers investigating how music influences our …

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 …

Recent studies have shown correlations between perceived colors and aspects of a musical
piece such as tonality, tempo and musical articulation. Other studies have demonstrated that …

Previous studies have shown that the tempo and harmonic mode (major vs. minor) of
different pieces of classical music produce consistent cross-modal associations with …

Arnheim (1986) speculated that different aesthetic domains (eg, color and music) might be
related to each other through common emotional associations. We investigated this …

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

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 …