When "bouba" equals "kiki": Cultural commonalities and cultural differences in sound-shape correspondences

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Yi Chuan ^a   Huang, Pi Chun ^b   Woods, Andy ^a,c   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Xperiment ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOUND; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84971343330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26681     Document Type: Article

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