Synesthesia strengthens sound-symbolic cross-modal correspondences
| Autor: | Simon Lacey, Krishnankutty Sathian, Kelly McCormick, Margaret Martinez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Auditory perception Visual perception Sensory system Article 050105 experimental psychology Perceptual Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Phenomenon medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sound symbolism Synesthesia Communication business.industry General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Implicit-association test medicine.disease Auditory Perception Visual Perception Female business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Neuroscience. 44:2716-2721 |
| ISSN: | 0953-816X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ejn.13381 |
| Popis: | Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which an experience in one domain is accompanied by an involuntary secondary experience in another, unrelated domain; in classical synesthesia, these associations are arbitrary and idiosyncratic. Cross-modal correspondences refer to universal associations between seemingly unrelated sensory features, e.g., auditory pitch and visual size. Some argue that these phenomena form a continuum, with classical synesthesia being an exaggeration of universal cross-modal correspondences, whereas others contend that the two are quite different, since cross-modal correspondences are non-arbitrary, non-idiosyncratic, and do not involve secondary experiences. Here, we used the implicit association test to compare synesthetes' and non-synesthetes' sensitivity to cross-modal correspondences. We tested the associations between auditory pitch and visual elevation, auditory pitch and visual size, and sound-symbolic correspondences between auditory pseudowords and visual shapes. Synesthetes were more sensitive than non-synesthetes to cross-modal correspondences involving sound-symbolic, but not low-level sensory, associations. We conclude that synesthesia heightens universally experienced cross-modal correspondences, but only when these involve sound symbolism. This is only partly consistent with the idea of a continuum between synesthesia and cross-modal correspondences, but accords with the idea that synesthesia is a high-level, post-perceptual phenomenon, with spillover of the abilities of synesthetes into domains outside their synesthesias. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that synesthetes, relative to non-synesthetes, experience stronger cross-modal correspondences outside their synesthetic domains. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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