As bitter as a trombone: Synesthetic correspondences in nonsynesthetes between tastes/flavors and musical notes

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1994-2002

  Crisinel, Anne Sylvie ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; TASTE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958449821     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1994     Document Type: Article

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