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Neural Basis of the Sound-Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Pseudowords and Visual Shapes.
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- Acoustic parameter combinations underlying mapping of pseudoword sounds to multiple domains of meaning: Representational similarity analyses and machine-learning models.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Cross-modal congruency modulates evidence accumulation, not decision thresholds.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Crossmodal correspondences between visual and speech angularity and tactile jaggedness of response key.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Neural Basis Of Sound-Symbolic Pseudoword-Shape Correspondences.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Neural Indicators of Visual Andauditory Recognition of Imitative Words on Different De-Iconization Stages.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural Basis of the Sound-Symbolic Crossmodal Correspondence Between Auditory Pseudowords and Visual Shapes.Multisensory research · 2021Article
- Stimulus Parameters Underlying Sound-Symbolic Mapping of Auditory Pseudowords to Visual Shapes.Cognitive science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Sound symbolism refers to the association between the sounds of words and their meanings, often studied using the crossmodal correspondence between auditory pseudowords, e.g., 'takete' or 'maluma', and pointed or rounded visual shapes, respectively. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, participants were presented with pseudoword-shape pairs that were sound-symbolically congruent or incongruent. We found no significant congruency effects in the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal when participants were attending to visual shapes. During attention to auditory pseudowords, however, we observed greater BOLD activity for incongruent compared to congruent audiovisual pairs bilaterally in the intraparietal sulcus and supramarginal gyrus, and in the left middle frontal gyrus. We compared this activity to independent functional contrasts designed to test competing explanations of sound symbolism, but found no evidence for mediation via language, and only limited evidence for accounts based on multisensory integration and a general magnitude system. Instead, we suggest that the observed incongruency effects are likely to reflect phonological processing and/or multisensory attention. These findings advance our understanding of sound-to-meaning mapping in the brain.
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