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Music and Mind in Everyday Life: A review
I have always thought that the test of a good book is whether you could hear the author in your head. When I am really absorbed in a book, be it fiction or non-fiction, I can hear the different characters voices and I have a clear picture of them speaking in my head. And although it might sound odd to some, I always find it easier to read an academic book if I can picture the author speaking. Typically I imagine a lecture-style situation, perhaps in a beautiful ornate lecture hall in one of the older European universities, where I sit in the audience and listen to the words of…
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Can music influence the taste of food?
This week, I have found a little something to tickle the taste buds! I have been reading a 2010 article published in Perception entitled “ A sweet sound? Food names reveal implicit associations between taste and pitch”. This article comes from one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of cross modal research and multisensory perception, Professor Charles Spence. And the conclusions he and his co-author (Anne-Sylvie Crisinel ) lay down include interesting but very much still open ideas about how our perception of food taste might be influenced by musical sounds. We live in a world of rich multisensory experiences, within which eating is one of the most…
