Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses.

Sound-symbolism, or the direct link between sound and meaning, is typologically and behaviorally attested across languages. However, neuroimaging research has mostly focused on artificial non-words or individual segments, which do not represent sound-symbolism in natural language. We used EEG to com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gwilym eLockwood, Jyrki eTuomainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
P2
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00933/full