Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual factors

被引:144
作者
Ward, J
Simner, J
机构
[1] UCL, Dept Psychol, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Psychol, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
关键词
lexical-gustatory synaesthesia; taste; phoneme; synesthesia;
D O I
10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00122-7
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
This study documents an unusual case of developmental synaesthesia, in which speech sounds induce an involuntary sensation of taste that is subjectively located in the mouth. JIW shows a highly structured, non-random relationship between particular combinations of phonemes (rather than graphemes) an the resultant taste, and this is influenced by a number of fine-grained phonemic properties (e.g. allophony, phoneme ordering). The synaesthesia is not found for environmental sounds. The synaesthesia, in its current form, is likely to have originated during vocabulary acquisition, since it is guided by learned linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The phonemes that trigger a given taste tend to also appear in the name of the corresponding foodstuff (e.g. /i/, /n/ and /s/ can trigger a taste of mince /mins/) and there is often a semantic association between the triggering word and taste (e.g. the word blue tastes "inky"). The results suggest that synaesthesia does not simply reflect innate connections from one perceptual system to another, but that it can be mediated and/or influenced by. a symbolic/conceptual level of representation. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:237 / 261
页数:25
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