Do You See What I'm Singing? Visuospatial Movement Biases Pitch Perception

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 252-257

  Connell, Louise ^a   Cai, Zhenguang G ^a   Holler, Judith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

gesture; mental representation; metaphor; music; pitch perception; spatial representation

Indexed keywords

GESTURE; MEMORY LOAD; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; METAPHOR; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROCESSING RESOURCES; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; VIDEO-CLIPS;

MUSIC;

EID: 84887542813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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