Leah Minton Critital Thinking 2
Leah Minton
July 15, 2014
Professor Barbara Stetson
Critical Thinking
New studies and tests are showing that when it comes to music and colors our brains think more like each other then we ever knew before. When the music is high tempo and a faster pace most people relate this to a brighter yellow color, but when the music is a little darker and slower they relate to a grayish-bluish hue. “So Mozart's jaunty Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major tends to be associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his dour Requiem in D minor is more likely to be linked to dark, bluish gray.” It is amazing to see the kinds of discoveries they are able to make my just simple recognition. The purpose of this reflection is to show how most humans are similar in their thinking and connection of certain things to other humans. Also to show how this article, Bach To The Blues: Are Brains Wired To Make Color-Music Connections, is related to psychology. How do they test the correlation between music pieces and colors that are associated with them? What colors are being associated with fast up beat music and which are with slower, darker music? How does music affect people’s emotions while they are hearing music? How does psychology help this experiment and what parts of psychology help determine the results?
The way this correlation is tested is by simply playing the music for multiple individuals and asking them to choose a color that best represents what they are hearing. When a faster, up beat song was playing most chose the bright yellow color, but when a slower, darker song was played they chose a darker blue or grayish color. They also tested the different emotions people had while they were listening to music and found that most when listening to upbeat music had a smile on their face and were overall pretty happy, but when played the darker, slower music tended to be a sadder and frowning. In this experiment psychology helps us because we already know through psychology
July 15, 2014
Professor Barbara Stetson
Critical Thinking
New studies and tests are showing that when it comes to music and colors our brains think more like each other then we ever knew before. When the music is high tempo and a faster pace most people relate this to a brighter yellow color, but when the music is a little darker and slower they relate to a grayish-bluish hue. “So Mozart's jaunty Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major tends to be associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his dour Requiem in D minor is more likely to be linked to dark, bluish gray.” It is amazing to see the kinds of discoveries they are able to make my just simple recognition. The purpose of this reflection is to show how most humans are similar in their thinking and connection of certain things to other humans. Also to show how this article, Bach To The Blues: Are Brains Wired To Make Color-Music Connections, is related to psychology. How do they test the correlation between music pieces and colors that are associated with them? What colors are being associated with fast up beat music and which are with slower, darker music? How does music affect people’s emotions while they are hearing music? How does psychology help this experiment and what parts of psychology help determine the results?
The way this correlation is tested is by simply playing the music for multiple individuals and asking them to choose a color that best represents what they are hearing. When a faster, up beat song was playing most chose the bright yellow color, but when a slower, darker song was played they chose a darker blue or grayish color. They also tested the different emotions people had while they were listening to music and found that most when listening to upbeat music had a smile on their face and were overall pretty happy, but when played the darker, slower music tended to be a sadder and frowning. In this experiment psychology helps us because we already know through psychology