Interference effects in color-music synesthesia
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- Algoma University Archives > Algoma University Theses collection > Psychology series > Interference effects in color-music synesthesia
- Creator
- Debbie Pokno
- Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 1.16 MB of textual records (PDF)
- General Material Designation
- Electronic record, Textual record
- Language(s)
- English
- Bibliographic Information
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.:, OSTMA-PSYC-Pokno-Debbie-19880402
- Descriptive Notes
- Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1988. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures and tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
- Often the stimulation of one sense will have an effect on another: this phenomenon is known as synesthesia (Mayer, 1961). Previous research has suggested that synesthetic factors are involved in the association of color and music (Karwoski & Odbert, 1938). Most of this research has been of a correlational or subjective nature. In the current study 63 subjects participated in a three color discrimination task, in which 180 match to sample trials were presented, while subjects were exposed to three selections of classical music. Each of these three selections had been associated to one of three colors used in this study, in an earlier investigation (Cutietta & Haggerty, 1987). It was predicted that more errors would occur when the music was mismatched to the color sample. The findings in this study did not concur with the predicted results but they demonstrate the complexity of trying to deal with the subject of synesthesia.