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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Music Psychology
  • Cross-modal Perception

Background:

  • Spatial metaphors are commonly used to describe musical tonality, with stable tones metaphorically located centrally and lower.
  • Existing research suggests links between abstract cognitive schemas and spatial perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether listeners associate tonal relationships with visuospatial dimensions (height, centrality, laterality, size).
  • To determine if these spatial mappings align with established musical metaphors.
  • To explore implicit and explicit associations between tonality and space.

Main Methods:

  • Explicit tasks: Participants matched probe tones to subjective locations and sizes.
  • Implicit tasks: An Implicit Association Test (IAT) assessed associations between tonal stability and spatial dimensions (vertical, lateral, size).
  • Experiments involved musicians and non-musicians.

Main Results:

  • Tonal stability was significantly associated with perceived physical space, with spatial distances correlating with tonal stability differences.
  • Contrary to musical discourse, stable tones were associated with higher and leftward spatial positions.
  • These mappings were inconsistent with common spatial metaphors for tonality.

Conclusions:

  • Demonstrates a novel cross-modal correspondence between musical tonality and spatial perception.
  • Suggests that spatial mappings of abstract domains may be independent of descriptive metaphors.
  • Speculates that emotional associations (e.g., 'good is up') and keyboard layouts influence these spatial mappings.