Crossmodal Associations with Olfactory, Auditory, and Tactile Stimuli in Children and Adults.

ABSTRACT: People associate information with different senses but the mechanism by which this happens is unclear. Such associations are thought to arise from innate structural associations in the brain, statistical associations in the environment, via shared affective content, or through language. A developmental perspective on crossmodal associations can help determine which explanations are more likely for specific associations. Certain associations with pitch (e.g., pitch-height) have been observed early in infancy, but others may only occur late into childhood (e.g., pitch-size). In contrast, tactile-chroma associations have been observed in children, but not adults. One modality that has received little attention developmentally is olfaction. In the present investigation, we explored crossmodal

SUBMITTER: Speed LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652194 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature