"What's your taste in music?" a comparison of the effectiveness of various soundscapes in evoking specific tastes

i-Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-23

  Wang, Qian Janice ^a   Woods, Andy T ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossmodal correspondences; Emotion mediation; Internet based testing; Soundtracks; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952658519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2041669515622001     Document Type: Article

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