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ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2026

The unity of sense and mind: A review of cross-domain mapping.

Qiawen Liu, Gary Lupyan

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Review in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Qiawen LiuDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA. ella.qiawen.liu@princeton.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9584-7973
Gary LupyanDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.

Funding

NSF PAC 2020969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

If the sound of a trombone had a taste, would it be bitter? In what way is solving a puzzle like navigating a relationship? People consistently map information across sensory modalities and conceptual domains. Such cross-sensory and cross-conceptual mappings have tended to be studied separately. We argue here that these mappings share underlying mechanisms and are more interconnected than previously thought. We present evidence that these mappings arise from a combination of statistical learning, magnitude matching, valence matching, and semantic mediation, involving an interplay between perception and conception. By bringing cross-sensory and cross-conceptual mappings into a common framework, we offer new insights into how people represent similarity and highlight promising avenues for understanding how humans discover and create connections across seemingly disparate domains.

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Concept FormationPerceptionHumansCross-domain mappingCross-modal correspondenceMetaphorSimilarity

Identifiers

PMID41491346
PMCPMC12769545

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