Composing with cross-modal correspondences: Music and odors in concert

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-52

  Crisinel, Anne Sylvie ^a   Jacquier, Caroline ^b   Deroy, Ophelia ^c   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut Paul Bocuse   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross modal correspondences; Emotion; Musical notes; Odors; Pitch; Shapes

Indexed keywords

MUSK;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COFFEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLOWER; FOLLOW UP; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORANGE (FRUIT); PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SWEETNESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84874503500     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-012-9138-4     Document Type: Article

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