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Crossmodal association between visual and acoustic cues in a tortoise (
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- Reversed sound-shape association in tortoises (Testudo marginata).Animal cognition · 2026Article
- Sweet Round, Spicy Sharp: How Chinese Typeface Features Trick the Tongue into Tasting Five Flavors.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sound Guides Object Size Choices in African Penguins Through Pitch-Size Association.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Sound symbolism facilitates interspecies communication between humans and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Crossmodal Pitch-Luminance Association in Tortoises.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Crossmodal correspondence of elevation/pitch and size/pitch is driven by real-world features.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- What, if anything, can be considered an amodal sensory dimension?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Review
- Editorial: Crossmodal correspondence.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Crossmodal association between visual and acoustic cues in a tortoise (Biology letters · 2023Article
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Abstract
Humans spontaneously match information coming from different senses, in what we call crossmodal associations. For instance, high-pitched sounds are preferentially associated with small objects, and low-pitched sounds with larger ones. Although previous studies reported crossmodal associations in mammalian species, evidence for other taxa is scarce, hindering an evolutionary understanding of this phenomenon. Here, we provide evidence of pitch-size correspondence in a reptile, the tortoise
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