Analyses of the sensory-relevance of adjective pairs by the modality differential method

Japanese Journal of Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 464-470

  Suzuki, Miho ^a   Gyoba, Jiro ^a   Kawabata, Hideaki ^b   Yamaguchi, Hiroshi ^c   Komatsu, Hiroshi ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjective scales; Intersensory processing; Semantic differential; Sensory modalities; Synaesthetic properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SENSATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SENSATION;

EID: 34250212559     PISSN: 00215236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.77.464     Document Type: Article

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