Crossmodal correspondences between visual, olfactory and auditory information

Crossmodal correspondences between odors and contingent features: odors, musical notes, and geometrical shapes

“…Besides the cases that can be found in the animal literature (Skals, Anderson, Kanneworff, Löftstedt, & Surlykke, 2005), the main example would come from a correlation between smell and sound intensity when their common source gets closer or farther from the perceiver (see Wright & Thomson, 2005). This relation gets expressed in crossmodal correspondences between olfaction and audition: Sounds of high volume are associated with a high concentration of an odor, whereas a low volume is associated with a low concentration of an odor (Persson, 2011).…”

As cores e as formas dos cheiros: as correspondências entre os sentidos do olfato e da visão em frascos de perfumes

“…Ambos os casos tratam da integração dos sentidos. Apesar de este termo possuir relação com o que aqui propomos, acreditamos que o que buscamos não é a verdadeira sinestesia (DOMINO, 2009, p. 599), mas uma associação cross-modal para a qual muitos de nós temos predisposição (DEMATTÈ et al, 2006, DOMINO, 2009. PERSSON, 2011;RAMACHANDRAN e HUBBARD, 2001).…”