Are higher-frequency sounds brighter in color and smaller in size? Auditory-visual correspondences in 10-month-old infants

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 727-732

  Haryu, Etsuko ^a   Kajikawa, Sachiyo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory visual correspondences; Pitch brightness correspondences; Pitch size correspondences; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866085389     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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