No evidence that sound–shape associations influence temporal resolution in humans: Five nonreplications of Parise and Spence (2009) and meta-analyses.

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2024
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Schlagworte:
  • sound–shape association
  • multisensory processing
  • time perception
  • Bouba/Kiki effect
  • cross-modal correspondence
Beschreibung:
  • Sound–shape associations (e.g., preferentially matching angular shapes with high-pitched sounds and smooth shapes with low-pitched ones) have been almost universally observed in humans. If cross-modally congruent sounds and shapes are more robustly integrated in humans, distinguishing them in time might be hypothetically more challenging compared to incongruent sound–shape pairings. Supporting this premise, a highly cited work by Parise and Spence (2009; n = 12) reported worse temporal order judgement performance for audiovisual stimuli with congruent compared to incongruent sound–shape associations. Here, we report the results of five experiments across two laboratories, including a preregistered replication attempt, all (∑n = 102) failing to replicate the original results. Additionally, frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses found no evidence against the null hypothesis, revealing a negligible effect size. The combined results indicate that multisensory temporal resolution in humans is unaffected by sound–shape associations, which might arise at a later (or parallel) processing stage compared to cross-modal temporal order judgements.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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