College students listened to four song clips. Following each clip, the students indicated
which color (s) corresponded to each of the four songs by distributing five points among …

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 …

Twelve hundred fifty-six subjects, ranging in age from 3 to 78 years, were asked to listen to
three music excerpts and indicate the color they associated with each. The purpose of this …

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

We explored the role of lyrics and melodies in conveying emotions in songs. Participants
rated the intensity of four types of emotions in instrumental music or the same music paired …

Two experiments empirically tested a philosophical theory propounded by Kivy (1980, 1990)
and Putnam (1987) about what distinguishes emotions that can or cannot be readily …

Fragments of classical music were submitted to 80 subjects, 40 children 9 to 10 years old
and 40 adults 19 to 29 years old who were divided into eight groups of ten, to induce …

The representation of expressivity in music is still a fairly unexplored field. Alternative ways
of representing musical information are necessary when providing feedback on emotion …

When designing a new study regarding how music can portray and elicit emotion, one of the
most crucial design decisions involves choosing the best stimuli. Every researcher must find …

This study examined color-emotion associations and the reasons for emotional reactions
given to colors. Ten fully saturated chromatic colors were chosen from the Munsell color …