Bach To The Blues: Are Brains Wired To Make Color-music Connections?
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Do you see music the same way as your neighbor? Apparently so. U.C. Berkeley psychologists say people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors, suggesting that humans share a common emotional palette – when it comes to music and color – that appears to be intuitive and can cross cultural barriers. They suggest that our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel read more