Tasting shapes and words

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 290-295

  Spence, Charles ^a   Gallace, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crossmodal correspondences; Flavour; Sound symbolism; Synaesthesia; Taste

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO; VACCINIUM MACROCARPON;

EID: 78751580659     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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