Dr Caroline Curwen's Outputs (4)

Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes (2023)
Journal Article
Curwen, C., Timmers, R., & Schiavio, A. (2024). Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Psychological Research, 88(2), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01856-2

Synaesthesia has been conceptualised as a joining of sensory experiences. Taking a holistic, embodied perspective, we investigate in this paper the role of action and emotion, testing hypotheses related to (1) changes to action-related qualities of a... Read More about Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes.

The role of synaesthesia in reading written musical key signatures. (2022)
Journal Article
Curwen, C. (2022). The role of synaesthesia in reading written musical key signatures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(10), 2284-2299. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001193

This study is the first empirical demonstration of synaesthesia for reading written musical keys signatures. Nine music-color synaesthetes and 9 controls took part in 5 experiments that aimed to confirm the authenticity of synaesthesia for reading mu... Read More about The role of synaesthesia in reading written musical key signatures..

Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account (2020)
Journal Article
Curwen, C. (2022). Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account. Musicae Scientiae, 26(2), 388-407. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864920956295

This article presents a sensorimotor account of music-colour synaesthesia, proposing a radically different perspective than is commonly provided. Recent empirical and theoretical work in music cognition moves away from cognitivist accounts, rejects r... Read More about Music-Colour Synaesthesia: A Sensorimotor Account.

Music-colour synaesthesia: Concept, context and qualia (2018)
Journal Article
Curwen, C. (2018). Music-colour synaesthesia: Concept, context and qualia. Consciousness and Cognition, 61, 94-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.04.005

This review provides a commentary on coloured-hearing arising on hearing music: music-colour synaesthesia. Although traditionally explained by the hyperconnectivity theory (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001a) and the disinhibited feedback theory (Grossenb... Read More about Music-colour synaesthesia: Concept, context and qualia.