There has been a rapid growth of interest amongst researchers in the cross-modal
correspondences in recent years. In part, this has resulted from the emerging realization of …

A wide variety of crossmodal correspondences, defined as the often surprising connections
that people appear to experience between simple features, attributes, or dimensions of …

The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Cross-modal integration between sound and texture is important to perception and action.
Here we show this has repercussions for the structure of spoken languages. We present a …

Speech is a potent route for viral transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed
mitigation strategies are difficult to develop since no aerosolization mechanism has been …

Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (ie, phonemes) and
perceptual and/or semantic features. One example is the maluma/takete effect: an …

Interest in iconicity (the resemblance-based mapping between aspects of form and
meaning) is in the midst of a resurgence, and a prominent focus in the field has been the …

Product names can be developed to effectively convey specific sensory attributes to the
consumer. Most of the previous research on crossmodal correspondences has shown that …

We report associations between vowel sounds, graphemes, and colors collected online from
over 1,000 Dutch speakers. We also provide open materials, including a Python …