A SMARC Effect for Loudness

Autor: Elena Bruzzi, Francesca Talamini, Konstantinos Priftis, Massimo Grassi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: i-Perception, Vol 8 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-6695
20416695
DOI: 10.1177/2041669517742175
Popis: Various reports suggest that the pitch height of musical tones may be represented along a mental space, with lower pitch heights represented on the left or lower sectors and higher pitch heights represented on the right or upper sectors of the mental space. Given that in Western languages the loudness of tones is often addressed spatially, with loud sounds referred to as “high” and quiet sounds referred to as “low,” here we investigated whether loudness might also have a spatial representation. Participants judged whether a tone was louder or quieter than a reference tone, by pressing two keys: one at the top and the other at the bottom of a response box. Participants were faster in a situation where they pressed the key at the top to report louder sounds, and the key at the bottom to report quieter sounds, than vice versa. This result supports the view that loudness, like other types of magnitudes, might be represented spatially.
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