There's a
fairly substantial
literature on this, with a very nice paper showing a considerable
influence of
culture being:
Eitan, Z.,
& Timmers, R. (2010). Beethoven's last piano sonata and those
who follow
crocodiles: Cross-domain mappings of auditory pitch in a musical
context. Cognition,
114(3), 405-422.
Alternatively, for evidence that a pitch-height mapping may
be universal, see:
Parkinson,
C., Kohler, P. J., Sievers, B., & Wheatley, T. (2012).
Associations between
Auditory Pitch and Visual Elevation Do Not Depend on Language:
Evidence from a
Remote Population. Perception, 41(7), 854-861.
and
Dolscheid,
S., Hunnius, S., Casasanto, D., & Majid, A. (2014).
Prelinguistic Infants
Are Sensitive to Space-Pitch Associations Found Across Cultures.
Psychological
Science, 25(6), 1256-1261.
Ian
On 13/03/2019 09:37, Paweł Kuśmierek
wrote:
I have not been following this thread so far, but
looking back I do not see two JASA papers of Roffler and Bulter
from 1968 mentioned, they are probably relevant... If they have
been mentioned, sorry for the redundancy!
Pawel
Unless you are a 'cellist. When my 4 year old daughter
started playing she was flummoxed by the notion that
playing lower pitch meant rising on the fingerboard and
vice versa.
- jonathan
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Jonathan Berger
The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music
Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Stanford University
http://jonathanberger.net
On 2019-03-12 04:56, Axel Roebel wrote:
Hello
On 11/03/19 13:01, Peter Lennox wrote:
But I'm not sure that
it's as intuitive to equate higher pitch= greater
quantity. I mean, I can grasp it visually (I suppose one
could try for an evolutionary argument – a higher pile=
a greater quantity, or some such).
I am all for the evolutionary argument! In fact if you see this from a physical perspective (us living in a world) then larger bodies make lower
sounds. So the relation high = large cannot be linked to a predominant world experience (besides for musicians - see Neuhoff 2002 (:-) - but also for
musicians a high note is produced by a smaller instrument, so it depends on the context the person uses to interpret the data). For visual
presentations it seems hard to find situations where you need to look up for something smaller.
Best
Axel
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Chair, Faculty Board of Music
Director, Centre for Music & Science
Faculty of Music
University of Cambridge
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