DIFFERENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SPECTRO-TEMPORAL AND VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AUDITORY PSEUDOWORDS TO MULTIPLE SOUND-SYMBOLIC MAPPINGS.

Simon Lacey, Kaitlyn L Matthews, A M Hoffmann, K Sathian, Lynne C Nygaard

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Simon LaceyDepartment of Neurology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center & Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Kaitlyn L MatthewsDepartment of Psychology Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

A M HoffmannDepartment of Psychology Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

K SathianDepartment of Neurology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center & Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Lynne C NygaardDepartment of Psychology Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

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Crossmodal Correspondences Between Visual and Auditory FeaturesR01EY025978 · NEI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI DESHPANDE, GOPIKRISHNA, NYGAARD, LYNNE C · 2015 to 2017

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Abstract

Sound symbolism, the idea that the sound of a word alone can convey its meaning, is often studied using auditory pseudowords. For example, people reliably assign the auditory pseudowords "bouba" and "kiki" to rounded and pointed shapes, respectively. Previously we showed that representational dissimilarity matrices (RDMs) of the shape ratings of auditory pseudowords correlated significantly with RDMs of acoustic parameters reflecting spectro-temporal variations; the ratings also correlated significantly with voice quality features. Here, participants rated auditory pseudowords on scales representing categorical opposites across seven meaning domains, including shape. Examination of the relationships of the perceptual ratings to spectro-temporal and vocal parameters of the pseudowords essentially replicated our previous findings for shape while varying patterns emerged for the other domains. Thus, the spectro-temporal and vocal properties of spoken pseudowords contribute differentially to sound-symbolic mapping depending on the meaning domain.

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AcousticLanguageMultisensoryRepresentational similarity analysisSound symbolism

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PMID39282266

DOI10.1101/2024.09.03.610973

PMCPMC11398405

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