Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

There has been a rapid growth of interest amongst researchers in the cross-modal
correspondences in recent years. In part, this has resulted from the emerging realization of …

The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

Eighty-seven years ago, Köhler reported that the majority of students picked the same
answer in a quiz: Which novel word form ('maluma'or 'takete') went best with which abstract …

Prior investigations have demonstrated that people tend to link pseudowords such as bouba
to rounded shapes and kiki to spiky shapes, but the cognitive processes underlying this …

Continuous flash suppression (CFS), and in particular the so-called breaking continuous
flash suppression (b-CFS) paradigm, has become one of the most influential approaches for …

Sound symbolism has typically been demonstrated as an association between certain
phonemes and perceptual dimensions (eg, size or shape). For instance, the maluma-takete …

The scope of unconscious processing is highly debated, with recent studies showing that
even high-level functions such as perceptual integration and category-based attention occur …

This chapter discusses various modalities of the body and their tractable interplay with
mental processes. It addresses a few broad questions: What versions of mind–body …

Non-arbitrary sound-shape correspondences (SSC), such as the “bouba-kiki” effect, have
been consistently observed across languages and together with other sound-symbolic …