The organization of semantic associations between senses in language

Alvarado, Jaime; Velasco, Carlos A.; Salgado-Flores, Alejandro

doi:10.31234/osf.io/9jh7k

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“…Merely obtaining statistically reliable responses does not necessarily indicate the presence of a statistically reliable behavioural effect. Instead, it might be considered an association that belongs to a broader association architecture (e.g., Alvarado et al, 2023).…”

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Reflections on Cross-Modal Correspondences: Current Understanding and Issues for Future Research

Motoki,

Marks,

Velasco

2023

Multisens. Res.

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The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on cross-modal correspondences. Broadly speaking, this term has been used to encompass associations between and among features, dimensions, or attributes across the senses. There has been an increasing interest in this topic amongst researchers from multiple fields (psychology, neuroscience, music, art, environmental design, etc.) and, importantly, an increasing breadth of the topic’s scope. Here, this narrative review aims to reflect on what cross-modal correspondences are, where they come from, and what underlies them. We suggest that cross-modal correspondences are usefully conceived as relative associations between different actual or imagined sensory stimuli, many of these correspondences being shared by most people. A taxonomy of correspondences with four major kinds of associations (physiological, semantic, statistical, and affective) characterizes cross-modal correspondences. Sensory dimensions (quantity/quality) and sensory features (lower perceptual/higher cognitive) correspond in cross-modal correspondences. Cross-modal correspondences may be understood (or measured) from two complementary perspectives: the phenomenal view (perceptual experiences of subjective matching) and the behavioural response view (observable patterns of behavioural response to multiple sensory stimuli). Importantly, we reflect on remaining questions and standing issues that need to be addressed in order to develop an explanatory framework for cross-modal correspondences. Future research needs (a) to understand better when (and why) phenomenal and behavioural measures are coincidental and when they are not, and, ideally, (b) to determine whether different kinds of cross-modal correspondence (quantity/quality, lower perceptual/higher cognitive) rely on the same or different mechanisms.

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Section: Issues For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Cross-Modal Correspondences: Current Understanding and Issues for Future Research

Motoki,

Marks,

Velasco

2023

Multisens. Res.

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Multisensory Food Experiences in Northern Norway: An Exploratory Study

Tran,

Veflen,

Jørgensen

et al. 2024

Foods

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Intrinsic and extrinsic sensory elements influence our food experiences. However, most research on extrinsic multisensory aspects of food has centered on WEIRD (White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) urban participants. This study breaks from this trend by investigating multisensory food experiences in the context of Northern Norway, a region characterized by distinct seasonal shifts, harsh arctic weather, unique atmospheric phenomena (e.g., the midnight sun and northern lights), limited food growth opportunities, and a rich Sámi cultural heritage. Our aim was to unravel the formation and development of multisensory food experiences within a culturally and environmentally specific framework. Our exploratory research used participant observation and interviews, involving four researchers from diverse backgrounds who closely examined multisensory food experiences within four Northern Norwegian food-related tourism businesses, all infused with Sámi cultural elements. Our findings suggest four major themes: (1) Experience elements, involving elements associated with plants, animals, and inanimate objects; (2) Bipolar concepts, which refer to opposing dimensions where experience elements varied, notably in the interplay between Sámi and Norwegian traditions; (3) Sensory stories, which highlight the narratives, enriching the eating experience with context, such as tales of dining under the captivating northern lights; and (4) Values, which indicate guiding principles shaping these experiences on a broader scale, emphasizing support for local traditions and culture. Our main contribution is the presentation of a new contextual framework of multisensory food experiences, which can be applicable to studying food experiences in other contexts.

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The organization of semantic associations between senses in language

Cited by 2 publications

References 53 publications

Reflections on Cross-Modal Correspondences: Current Understanding and Issues for Future Research

Reflections on Cross-Modal Correspondences: Current Understanding and Issues for Future Research

Multisensory Food Experiences in Northern Norway: An Exploratory Study

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