High‐Pitched Sound is Open and Low‐Pitched Sound is Closed: Representing the Spatial Meaning of Pitch Height

L Vainio, IL Myllylä, A Wikström, M Vainio - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research shows that high‐and low‐pitch sounds can be associated with various meanings.
For example, high‐pitch sounds are associated with small concepts, whereas low‐pitch …

Sound symbolism in manual and vocal responses: phoneme-response interactions associated with grasping as well as vertical and size dimensions of keypresses

L Vainio, IL Myllylä, M Vainio - Cognitive Processing, 2024 - Springer
It has been shown that reading the vowel [i] and consonant [t] facilitates precision grip
responses, while [ɑ] and [k] are associated with faster power grip responses. A similar effect …

Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences

DA Barany, S Lacey, KL Matthews, LC Nygaard… - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-arbitrary mapping between the sound of a word and its meaning, termed sound
symbolism, is commonly studied through crossmodal correspondences between sounds …