Presentation 2021-02-18
Cross-modal correspondence between instrument sounds and colors
Hirotaka Yamasaki, Wataru Teramoto,
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Abstract(in English) Studies have investigated crossmodal correspondence between instrumental sounds and colors. Here we investigated whether musical instrument experience modulates such crossmodal correspondence. We classified participants into two groups of 40 university students based on whether they had over five years of experience playing any musical instrument. They were presented with 70 musical sounds varying in the instrument (12), fundamental frequency (2 or 3), and length (2), and were asked to choose a color that best matched the sound. Results showed that the spectral centroid of sounds was positively correlated with brightness and negatively correlated with saturation, irrespective of musical experience. No difference was observed between groups. In contrast, as for hue, classical multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis showed that participants with musical experience tended to choose similar hues depending on whether the sound was produced by string or brass instruments.
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Keyword(in English) Crossmodal correspondence / Instrumental sounds / Color
Paper # HIP2020-73
Date of Issue 2021-02-11 (HIP)

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Committee HIP / VRSJ
Conference Date 2021/2/18(2days)
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Chair Shuichi Sakamoto(Tohoku Univ.)
Vice Chair Yuji Wada(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Sachiko Kiyokawa(Nagoya Univ.)
Secretary Yuji Wada(NICT) / Sachiko Kiyokawa(NTT) / (NICT)
Assistant Hidetoshi Kanaya(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Yuki Yamada(Kyushu Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Information Processing / The Virtual Reality Society of Japan
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Cross-modal correspondence between instrument sounds and colors
Sub Title (in English) its relationship with the period of musical experience
Keyword(1) Crossmodal correspondence
Keyword(2) Instrumental sounds
Keyword(3) Color
1st Author's Name Hirotaka Yamasaki
1st Author's Affiliation Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Wataru Teramoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Kumamoto University(Kumamoto Univ.)
Date 2021-02-18
Paper # HIP2020-73
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) HIP-375
Page pp.pp.6-11(HIP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-11 (HIP)