When visual cues influence taste/flavour perception: A systematic review and the critical appraisal of multisensory flavour perception

K Motoki, C Spence, C Velasco - Food Quality and Preference, 2023 - Elsevier
There has been a noticeable increase of interest in research on multisensory flavour
perception in recent years. Humans are visually dominant creatures and a growing body of …

Synergistic combination of visual features in vision–taste crossmodal correspondences

BP Lee, C Spence - Multisensory Research, 2023 - brill.com
There has been a rapid recent growth in academic attempts to summarise, understand, and
predict the taste profile matching complex images that incorporate multiple visual design …

Marble melancholy: using crossmodal correspondences of shapes, materials, and music to predict music-induced emotions

B Mesz, S Tedesco, F Reinoso-Carvalho… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Music is known to elicit strong emotions in listeners, and, if primed
appropriately, can give rise to specific and observable crossmodal correspondences. This …

[HTML][HTML] Individual differences in sensitivity to taste-shape crossmodal correspondences

EG Chuquichambi, E Munar, C Spence… - Food Quality and …, 2024 - Elsevier
People generally associate curved and symmetrical shapes with sweetness, while
associating angular and asymmetrical shapes with the other basic tastes (eg, sour, bitter) …

[HTML][HTML] Harmony of senses: Exploring the impact of sound aesthetic features' on taste imagery

C Velasco, G Corradi, K Motoki - Food Quality and Preference, 2023 - Elsevier
People reliably associate visual aesthetic features such as curvature and symmetry with
tastes. In the present study, considering the transitive hypothesis of crossmodal …

Combining typeface and color to prime specific taste expectations.

BP Lee, C Spence - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The effects of color and typeface on people's taste expectations have been well documented
in the literature on crossmodal correspondences. However, research on the interaction …

An fMRI study of visual geometric shapes processing

L Wei, X Li, L Huang, Y Liu, L Hu, W Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cross-modal correspondence has been consistently evidenced between shapes and other
sensory attributes. Especially, the curvature of shapes may arouse the affective account …

The imitation game–exploring the double-grip analysis for creating analog wines

APF Crichton-Fock, C Spence - Journal of Wine Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this pilot study, we investigated the use of the Double-Grip Analysis method as a tool to
create analogue wines. The study involved four groups of sommeliers using the method to …

Tailoring sweetness sensitivity cued by affective pictures

Y Wen, H Yang, Z Kang, L Wei, S Zhao… - Food Quality and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plenty of previous studies have observed the cross-modal correspondence effect of vision
and taste. In particular, affective pictures were shown to be associated with certain taste …

Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation after taste exposure revealed by resting-state fMRI

J Chen, M Zhao, L Huang, Y Liu, X Li, X Jia, Q Ding… - Physiology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Taste perception has been deeply explored from the behavioural level to delineating neural
mechanisms. However, most previous studies about the neural underpinnings of taste …