Citation

Boltz MG. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2018; 32(4): 512-517.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/acp.3420

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Past research has shown that variations in musical tempo influence the perceived rate of visual motion. The goal here was to investigate whether this effect is influenced by audiovisual affect. Participants were presented with montages (slideshows) of positive or negative scenes accompanied by positive or negative music whose rate was either the same as, or 15% faster or slower than that of the montage. The results of a subsequent recognition task showed a higher false alarm rate to faster and slower visual scenes in the presence of accelerated and decelerated soundtracks, respectively. Moreover, the magnitude of these effects significantly increased when music-montage pairs displayed a positive and negative affect, respectively. In contrast, variations in visual rate exerted no influence on auditory rate recognition. These findings have implications for audiovisual art forms as well as theories of cross-modal perception.

Language: en

Keywords

audiovisual; auditory driving; intersensory processing; music–film interactions; tempo recognition