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Why Are Runway Soundtracks So Powerful?

Ask a Neuroscientist × Fashion, exhibition 006: The Listening Room

From RN Collins, selected work

The article, the sources and the image credits behind this post, each linked to the original.

The articleWhy Are Runway Soundtracks So Powerful? ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Laurel J. Trainor (2015). The origins of music in auditory scene analysis and the roles of evolution and culture in musical creation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  2. Ani Patel and John Iversen (2014). The Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction hypothesis. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  3. Hugo Merchant et al. (2015). Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  4. Sylvie Nozaradan (2014). Exploring how musical rhythm entrains brain activity with electroencephalogram frequency-tagging. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  5. Di Liberto et al. (2020). Cortical encoding of melodic expectations in human temporal cortex. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  6. Petr Janata (2009). The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  7. Schaffert et al. (2019). A review on the relationship between sound and movement in sports and rehabilitation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  8. WHO Regional Office for Europe (2018). Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region. who.int
  9. Su (2014). Content congruency and temporal synchrony in audiovisual integration. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Other sources

  1. RN Collins (2026). Runway Sound Map. ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app
  2. The evidence reading room for this exhibition: every claim, its source and what it does not prove ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Images, slide by slide

Image 1 in the essay
Metronome, Maelzel, ca. 1821. The Met, 1979.1.2, Public Domain/CC0. An object about measured pulse, not proof that runway gait is metronomic.Public Domain/CC0Photo record
Image 2 in the essay
Drum, Nasca artist(s), 100-400 CE. The Met, 1978.412.111, Public Domain/CC0. Rhythm is also material culture.Public Domain/CC0Photo record
Image 3 in the essay
Music Box, ca. 1810. The Met, 1976.285.5, Public Domain/CC0. Stored sequence becomes repeatable, familiar and available to memory.Public Domain/CC0Photo record

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