Smelling speech sounds: Association of odors with texture‐related ideophones

Odors are often difficult to describe verbally, and little is known about the association of odors with the words that describe them. Following the literature on crossmodal correspondences between odors and sounds/haptics, this study aimed to reveal how odors are associated with the words describing textures and haptics in the Japanese language. Fifty participants smelled 17 food‐related odors (e.g., lemon, pepper) and matched the odors with...