Evidence of sound symbolism in simple vocalizations

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 373-380

  Parise, Cesare V ^a,b,c,d,e   Pavani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Go no go task; Multisensory integration; Sound symbolism; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; LOUDNESS; LUMINANCE; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053949870     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2836-3     Document Type: Article

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