Personification of Musical Sequences

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Musical sequences, scales, or progressions are assigned personality traits, genders, or emotional characters.

Inducer

music

Concurrent

personality

Category

Auditory Personality

About Personification of Musical Sequences

Musical sequences, scales, or progressions are automatically assigned personality traits, genders, or emotional characters. A rising scale might be perceived as an ambitious young man, while a descending chromatic run could be a melancholic old woman. Related to ordinal linguistic personification (OLP) but triggered by musical rather than linguistic sequences.

Research

Simner, J. & Holenstein, E. (2007). Ordinal linguistic personification as a variant of synesthesia. J Cogn Neurosci, 19(4).

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Smilek, D. et al. (2007). When 3 is a jerk and E is a king. J Cogn Neurosci, 19(6).

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