The Taste Of A Trombone
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 10:40
in Mathematics & Economics
“Our results raise important questions about our representation of tastes and flavors and could also lead to applications in the marketing of food products.”- say a research team who have been investigating possible associations between flavors and various musical instruments. The Crossmodal Research Lab at Oxford University in the UK have presented their paper : ‘As bitter as a trombone: Synesthetic correspondences in nonsynesthetes between tastes/flavors and musical notes’ in a recent issue of the journal Attention Perception&Psychophysics. read more