On tasty colours and colourful tastes? Assessing, explaining, and utilizing crossmodal correspondences between colours and basic tastes

Can basic tastes, such as sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and possibly also umami, be conveyed by means of colour? If so, how should we understand the relationship between colours and tastes: Is it universal or relative, innate or acquired, unidirectional or bidirectional? Here, we review the growing bo...

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Main Authors: Spence, C, Wan, X, Woods, A, Velasco, C, Deng, J, Youssef, J, Deroy, O
Format: Journal article
Published: BioMed Central 2015