Touching words is not enough: How visual experience influences haptic-auditory associations in the "Bouba-Kiki" effect

Cognition

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 164-173

  Fryer, Louise ^a   Freeman, Jonathan ^a   Pring, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Crossmodal integration; Sound symbolism; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOUBA KIKI EFFECT; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; DRAWING; FEMALE; HAPTIC AUDITORY ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; HEARING; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899818466     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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