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Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion
A prevalent conceptual metaphor is the association of the concepts of good and evil with brightness and darkness, respectively. Music cognition, like metaphor, is possibly embodied, yet no study has addressed the question whether musical emotion can modulate brightness judgment in a metaphor consist...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749205/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26863420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148959 |
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author | Bhattacharya, Joydeep Lindsen, Job P. |
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description | A prevalent conceptual metaphor is the association of the concepts of good and evil with brightness and darkness, respectively. Music cognition, like metaphor, is possibly embodied, yet no study has addressed the question whether musical emotion can modulate brightness judgment in a metaphor consistent fashion. In three separate experiments, participants judged the brightness of a grey square that was presented after a short excerpt of emotional music. The results of Experiment 1 showed that short musical excerpts are effective emotional primes that cross-modally influence brightness judgment of visual stimuli. Grey squares were consistently judged as brighter after listening to music with a positive valence, as compared to music with a negative valence. The results of Experiment 2 revealed that the bias in brightness judgment does not require an active evaluation of the emotional content of the music. By applying a different experimental procedure in Experiment 3, we showed that this brightness judgment bias is indeed a robust effect. Altogether, our findings demonstrate a powerful role of musical emotion in biasing brightness judgment and that this bias is aligned with the metaphor viewpoint. |
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spelling | pubmed-47492052016-02-26 Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion Bhattacharya, Joydeep Lindsen, Job P. PLoS One Research Article A prevalent conceptual metaphor is the association of the concepts of good and evil with brightness and darkness, respectively. Music cognition, like metaphor, is possibly embodied, yet no study has addressed the question whether musical emotion can modulate brightness judgment in a metaphor consistent fashion. In three separate experiments, participants judged the brightness of a grey square that was presented after a short excerpt of emotional music. The results of Experiment 1 showed that short musical excerpts are effective emotional primes that cross-modally influence brightness judgment of visual stimuli. Grey squares were consistently judged as brighter after listening to music with a positive valence, as compared to music with a negative valence. The results of Experiment 2 revealed that the bias in brightness judgment does not require an active evaluation of the emotional content of the music. By applying a different experimental procedure in Experiment 3, we showed that this brightness judgment bias is indeed a robust effect. Altogether, our findings demonstrate a powerful role of musical emotion in biasing brightness judgment and that this bias is aligned with the metaphor viewpoint. Public Library of Science 2016-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4749205/ /pubmed/26863420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148959 Text en © 2016 Bhattacharya, Lindsen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bhattacharya, Joydeep Lindsen, Job P. Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title | Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title_full | Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title_fullStr | Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title_full_unstemmed | Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title_short | Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion |
title_sort | music for a brighter world: brightness judgment bias by musical emotion |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749205/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26863420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148959 |
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