“Our results raise important questions about our representation of tastes and flavors and could also lead to applications in the marketing of food products.” – say a research team who have been investigating possible associations between flavors and various musical instruments. The Crossmodal Research Lab at Oxford University in the UK are presenting their new […]
Tag: Music
Music for Sharks and Subs
Which styles of music might be best at representing an underwater silent menace? Specifically, the underwater silent menaces of submarines and sharks? Musicologist Linda Maria Koldau, professor of musicology at the Institute of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University, in Denmark, examines this problem in the current (inaugural) issue of the scholarly journal Horror Studies. The essay, […]
Sprouting Encouragement in Arizona
Can music encourage seeds to sprout? According to research published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Volume 10, Number 1, 2004, pp. 113–122, the answer is yes. Gary E.R. Schwartz, Professor of Psychology, Neurology and Psychiatry, at the University of Arizona performed a set of experiments with colleague Katherine Creath, Ph.D. (Optical Science), […]
Guéguen and the goad of romantic song
Nicholas Guéguen has published a new romantic study. Professor Guéguen, whose imaginative and persistent attempts to explore the mysteries of l’amour we have sometimes chronicled is perhaps best known for his monograph “Women’s Bust Size and Men’s Courtship Solicitation“, which is considered to be one of the classics of its genre. The new paper is: […]