Non-Auditory Associations of Musical and Non-Musical Sounds in General Listeners
International Congress on Synaesthesia Art and Science V.
Our research explores theories based upon past behavioural studies and FMRI
scans with Synaesthetes and general listeners. FMRI experiments have revealed that the
cross-modal associations to sounds in Synaesthetes are less pronounced, yet still present
in the general population. The results of our psycho-musicology study with 40
Synaesthetes and 40 non-Synaesthetes reveal a quasi-Synaesthetic [Nikolic, 2014]
spectrum extending to general listeners, similar to culturally founded Synaesthesia
[Kohler].