Sight-over-sound judgments of music performances are replicable effects with limited interpretability.

Virtuosi impress audiences with their musical expressivity and with their theatrical flair. How do listeners use this auditory and visual information to judge performance quality? Both musicians and laypeople report a belief that sound should trump sight in the judgment of music performance, but sur...

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Main Authors: Samuel A Mehr, Daniel A Scannell, Ellen Winner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6124715?pdf=render