Synaesthesia? A window into perception, thought and language

By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Edward M. Hubbard. 2001

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Assessing the Role of the ‘Unity Assumption’ on Multisensory Integration: A Review (2017, background): “…clear, while most people would choose ‘bouba’ as the appropriate matching for a rounded cloud-like shape and ‘kiki,’ for an angular star-like shape (see Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001; Bremner et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2016), they do not necessarily believe that those are the names of those…”
Mappings between linguistic sound and motion (2013, methodology): “Similar experiments have since been performed with children (Irwin and Newland 1940; Maurer et al., 2006), as well as cross-culturally (Davis, 1961) and with varying visual and linguistic stimuli (Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001; Nielsen and Rendall, 2012; Nielsen and Rendall, 2011).”
Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution (2014, background): “bouba and kiki judged to correspond to a round, curvy versus jagged, pointy shape, respectively [20–22].”
Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness : A multilevel framework of description and explanation (2003, methodology): “One example of this type of test is the pop-out effect (Treisman and Gelade, 1980), which has been successfully used to show the reality of colour experiences in synesthesia (Ramachandran and Hubbard, 2001).”
Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages (2016, background): “Both small and round have been linked to the phenomenon of cross-modal mapping (10, 13, 36).”
"Bouba" and "Kiki" in Namibia? A remote culture make similar shape-sound matches, but different shape-taste matches to Westerners. (2013, methodology): “…superimposed on the arrows between these. ferred to in this case as sound-symbolism) may provide the sound-referent mappings required for the evolution and ontogeny of language (Imai, Kita, Nagumo, & Okada, 2008; Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001; Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2005; see also Robson, 2011).”
Phonetic Detail and Dimensionality in Sound-shape Correspondences: Refining the Bouba-Kiki Paradigm (2014, background): “The possibility that an iconic visual or proprioceptive cue of rounded lips is the basis for the bouba-kiki effect (e.g. Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001) may in fact be supported by the findings shown in Figure 2.”
A UNIFIED MODEL (2007, methodology): “Resonant mappings can rely on cues generated by synaesthesia (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001), onomatopoeia, sound symbolism, postural associations (Paget, 1930), lexical analysis or a host of other provisional relations.”
The phenomenology of synaesthesia (2003, methodology): “Work in our laboratory has shown that synaesthesia is a genuine sensory phenomenon (Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001a,b).”
Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages (2010, background): “Along the same lines as Ramachandran and Hubbard (2001), Kovic et al. (2010) conclude that the sensitivity to sound-symbolic (iconic) label-figure associations may reflect a more general process of auditory–visual feature integration where properties of auditory stimuli facilitate a mapping to…”
Synesthesia: a new approach to understanding the development of perception. (2013, background): “They also imply that synesthesia is an exaggeration of processes common to us all (e.g., Marks, 1975, 1982; Mulvenna & Walsh, 2006; Ramachandran & Hubbard , 2001; Sagiv & Ward, 2006; Ward et al., 2006).”
Neural Plasticity and Consciousness (2003, unknown): “But it simply 'popped out' for the synaesthetes, since they saw the 2s and the 5s in different colors (Ramachandran and Hubbard 2001).”