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The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical evidence for the Whorfian hypothesis

2011

The Thickness of Musical Pitch: Psychophysical evidence for the Whorfian hypothesis Sarah Dolscheid 1,2 Shakila Shayan 1 Asifa Majid 1,3 Daniel Casasanto 1,3,4 (sarah.dolscheid@mpi.nl) (shakila.shayan@mpi.nl) (asifa.majid@mpi.nl) (casasand@newschool.edu) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, Nijmegen, NL Donders Center for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA pitches (Lidji, Kolinsky, Lochy, & Morais, 2007; Rusconi, Kwan, Giordano, Umilta, & Butterworth, 2006). Beyond binary high-low correspondences, psychophysical pitch reproduction tasks show that pitch maps onto vertical space in a continuous analog fashion (Casasanto, 2010). Pitch and vertical space have been found to interact even in prelinguistic infants. In a preferential looking task, 3- to 4-month-olds preferred congruent trials (in which ...