Vowel-Color Associations (IMAGE)

Radboud University Nijmegen

Vowel-Color Associations

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Vowel-color associations in two non-synesthete subjects (left) and in two synesthetes (right). Synesthetes more precisely chose the same color for a particular sound. However, all four participants created groups of sounds that lay close to a particular Dutch vowel, such as "ee" [i:] (upper left), and they all chose lighter colors for "ee" than for "aa" or "oo." General principles for vowel-color associations exist, whether one has synesthesia or not.

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Mark Dingemanse Radboud University

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