The present work aimed to systematically examine sensory and higher level
correspondences to angular and curved shapes. Participants matched angular and curved …

This review deals with the question of the relative vs absolute nature of crossmodal
correspondences, with a specific focus on those correspondences involving the auditory …

We report on the results of two online experiments designed to compare different
soundtracks that had been composed (by various researchers and sound designers) in …

It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive
constraints of the human brain, developing, in the course of cultural transmission, structural …

Crossmodal correspondences between visual features (eg, color/shape) and tastes have
been extensively documented in recent years. Visual colors and shapes have been shown …

The study of emotional expression has long been the provenance of scientific discovery and
heated controversy. It has spurred advances in studies of emotion-related physiology …

Consumers often associate particular packaging colours with specific flavours. However,
further research is needed in order to assess the extent to which these crossmodal …

People associate information with different senses but the mechanism by which this
happens is unclear. Such associations are thought to arise from innate structural …

Crossmodal associations may arise at neurological, perceptual, cognitive, or emotional
levels of brain processing. Higher-level modal correspondences between musical timbre …

According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, abstract concepts can be metaphorically
associated with more concrete, physically embodied concepts, such as gustatory …