The current paper investigates whether people associate certain emotions and visual features (specifically roughness, colour, and brightness) with different musical intervals. It was hypothesised that more dissonant intervals would be associated more with sadness and tragedy while more consonant intervals would be more strongly associated with happiness and hopefulness instead. It was further hypothesised that the relationship between intervals and emotional valence would be crossmodally mediate
Associating (dis)consonance of harmonic intervals with emotional valences: exploring the visual representation of music through crossmodal associations
Charles Spence
