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Music can elicit a visual motion aftereffect.

Stephen C Hedger¹, Howard C Nusbaum, Olivier Lescop

¹University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. shedger@uchicago.edu

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics

|March 5, 2013

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Listening to ascending or descending musical scales can create a visual motion aftereffect (MAE). This suggests that the perception of pitch changes as motion has a basis in how we process visual information.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Auditory Perception
Visual Perception

Background:

Motion aftereffects (MAEs) typically arise from adapting visual motion processing areas.
Previous research suggests implied motion from static images and text can induce MAEs.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if auditory stimuli, specifically musical scales, can induce a visual MAE.
To explore the perceptual link between monotonic pitch change and motion perception.

Main Methods:

Participants listened to ascending or descending musical scales.
Following auditory exposure, participants judged the direction of visual motion in random-dot kinematograms.

Main Results:

Exposure to rising or falling musical scales altered visual motion judgments.
Participants showed a shift in visual motion sensitivity in the direction opposite to the musical scale's pitch change.

Conclusions:

Music, specifically monotonic pitch changes, can induce MAEs, demonstrating cross-modal influences on motion perception.
The interpretation of pitch change as motion may be grounded in shared perceptual mechanisms.