Personification of Musical Sequences
very rarePersonification of Musical Sequences Synesthesia is a very rare type of synesthesia. Musical sequences, scales, or progressions are assigned personality traits, genders, or emotional characters.
- Inducer
- music
- Concurrent
- personality
- Category
- Auditory Personality
What is Personification of Musical Sequences Synesthesia?
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 on Personification of Musical Sequences Synesthesia
Simner, J. & Holenstein, E. (2007). Ordinal linguistic personification as a variant of synesthesia. J Cogn Neurosci, 19(4).
View publication →Smilek, D. et al. (2007). When 3 is a jerk and E is a king. J Cogn Neurosci, 19(6).
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