Smelling shapes: Crossmodal correspondences between odors and shapes

Chemical Senses

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-166

  Hanson Vaux, Grant ^a   Crisinel, Anne Sylvie ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossmodal associations; Crossmodal correspondences; Odors; Shapes

Indexed keywords

PERFUME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEMON; MALE; ODOR; PEPPER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASPBERRY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SMELLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VANILLA; VISUAL STIMULATION; WINE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SMELL; WINE; YOUNG ADULT;

CITRUS LIMON; RUBUS GLAUCUS;

EID: 84872122782     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs087     Document Type: Article

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