Music-color associations are mediated by emotion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8836-8841

  Palmer, Stephen E ^a   Schloss, Karen B ^a   Xu, Zoe ^a   Prado León, Lilia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Color cognition; Cross modal associations; Emotion mediation hypothesis; Music cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLOR COGNITION; CROSS-MODAL ASSOCIATIONS; EMOTION MEDIATION HYPOTHESIS; MUSIC COGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COLOR; EMOTIONS; FACE; HUMANS; MEXICO; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878470337     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212562110     Document Type: Article

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