The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical evidence for the Whorfian hypothesis

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 537-542

  Dolscheid, Sarah ^a,b   Shayan, Shakila ^a   Majid, Asifa ^a,c   Casasanto, Daniel ^a,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Metaphor; Musical pitch; Psychophysics; Space; Whorfian hypothesis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION;

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOWER FREQUENCIES; METAPHOR; MUSICAL PITCH; PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIC; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVIDENCES; SPACE; WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS;

MUSIC;

EID: 84870512631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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