Affective priming of music and words

摘要: In recent times the relationship between language and music has garnered substantial interest (Patel, 2008). The present thesis used an affective priming paradigm, in which musical sequences words were categorized as happy or sad, to determine whether lexical information of matched affect could act effective primes (stimulus congruency). Experiment 1 was a replication previously reported congruency effects using auditory presentation stimuli. 2, two words, short one each presented auditorily participants responded by categorizing emotional valence second item sad. 3 examined extent properties chords have impact on judgments semantic decision task. Participants (i.e., it word chord, neither). all experiments, observed, suggesting that can influence when they are together. However, although similarities found music, there differences. First, responses stimuli slower than those Second, some conditions contrast, rather observed. These studies first explore word-music priming. addition, research expands existing knowledge provides evidence differences processing.