" Bouba" and " Kiki" in Namibia? A remote culture make similar shape-sound matches, but different shape-taste matches to Westerners

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-172

  Bremner, Andrew J ^a   Caparos, Serge ^a   Davidoff, Jules ^a   de Fockert, Jan ^a   Linnell, Karina J ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Crossmodal correspondence; Flavour; Shape symbolism; Sound symbolism; Taste

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BOUBA KIKI EFFECT; CACAO; CARBONATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NAMIBIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SYMBOLISM; TASTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NAMIBIA; PHONETICS; SYMBOLISM; TASTE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84871763977     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.007     Document Type: Article

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