Rising tones and rustling noises: Metaphors in gestural depictions of sounds.

Communicating an auditory experience with words is a difficult task and, in consequence, people often rely on imitative non-verbal vocalizations and gestures. This work explored the combination of such vocalizations and gestures to communicate auditory sensations and representations elicited by non-...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Lemaitre, Hugo Scurto, Jules Françoise, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Olivier Houix, Patrick Susini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5547699?pdf=render