{"pk":28163,"title":"Music and Odor in Harmony: A Case of Music-Odor Synaesthesia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We report an individual with music-odor synaesthesia who\nexperiences automatic and vivid odor sensations when she\nhears music. S’s odor associations were recorded on two\ndays, and compared with those of two control participants.\nOverall, S produced longer descriptions, and her associations\nwere of multiple odors at once, in comparison to controls who\ntypically reported a single odor. Although odor associations\nwere qualitatively different between S and controls, ratings of\nthe consistency of their descriptions did not differ. This\ndemonstrates that crossmodal associations between music and\nodor exist in non-synaesthetes too. We also found that S is\nbetter at discriminating between odors than control\nparticipants, and is more likely to experience emotion,\nmemories and evaluations triggered by odors, demonstrating\nthe broader impact of her synaesthesia.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"synaesthesia; odor; music; crossmodal\nassociations"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5jc155vd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Speed","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University","department":""},{"first_name":"Asifa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Majid","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Bahavior","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28163/galley/17822/download/"}]}