Metaphors for Communicating Musical Expression: Comparing LLMs to Humans Interpreting Metaphors in Piano Performance

Brain metaphors generated by humans and large language models: Evidence from metaphor elicitation

This study compares metaphorical descriptions of the brain elicited from 61 human participants and eight publicly available LLM-based chat systems and indicates both the capacities and the constraints of LLMs in metaphorical “reasoning,” particularly their reliance on conventionalised patterns and their limited embodie...

Affective Bond Between AI-Generated Music and Human Listeners

Generative artificial intelligence is being applied to create music in an ever-widening range, but it has not been determined whether the results can effectively convey human emotions. A controlled-variable experimental design is used to explore the causal relationship between information density in prompts and listene...

Auditory Feedback as a Communication Modality: Modeling Perceived Semantic Expression of UX Sounds

This work identifies recurring audio design patterns and investigates how they relate to perceived semantic expression across the communication levels of system status, affect, and brand identity, then applies explainable machine learning to a predictive model capturing interpretable parts of this relationship.

From Tacit to Tokenised: Critical Perspectives on AI Text-to-Audio Interfaces

EXPRESS: What Makes a Novel Spatial Metaphor of Time: A Study of Hand Gestures.

How people process nonliteral language has long been studied in the context of metaphorical expressions. Conventional metaphors seem to be processed differently than novel metaphors. In this study, we first created novel spatial metaphors of time in Turkish and standardized them for aptness, conventionality, metaphoric...

Toward a Neuro-Yijing Model: Musical Imagery, Affect, and Reflective Experience in Chinese Programmatic Music

Neuroaesthetic research has often examined aesthetic experience through measurable categories such as beauty, pleasure, preference, prediction, and reward. Although these approaches have produced important insights, they do not fully explain how culturally situated musical experience may be organized around sound-induc...