Sound-Symbolism is Disrupted in Dyslexia: Implications for the Role of Cross-Modal Abstraction Processes

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 602-607

  Drijvers, Linda ^a   Zaadnoordijk, Lorijn ^a   Dingemanse, Mark ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bouba kiki effect; cross modal abstraction; dyslexia; sound symbolism

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; LINGUISTICS;

ABSTRACTION PROCESS; BOUBA-KIKI EFFECT; CROSS-MODAL; CROSS-MODAL ABSTRACTION; DYSLEXIUM; SOUND-SYMBOLISM;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84942170005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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