Marks L E
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1982 Feb;8(1):15-23. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.8.1.15.
To explore the role of cross-modal perception in the apprehension of synesthetic metaphors, subjects read 15 short lines from poetry, each of which contained a metaphor relating visual and auditory qualities; the subjects' task was to set the loudness of a 1000-Hz tone and the brightness of a white light to match the levels implied by each metaphor. The sound settings and light settings suggest that a cross-modal equivalence between loudness and brightness largely underlay the responses to the metaphors. This general cross-modal equivalence was characterized by some notable intersubject differences and was modified, in part, by certain metaphors that resisted complete equivalence. Even so, the metaphorically induced settings of loudness and brightness are mainly governed by a cross-modality matching function that is qualitatively like the relation found in people with visual-auditory synesthesia, and that is quantitatively like the function obtained in more traditional psychophysical studies.
为探究跨通道感知在通感隐喻理解中的作用，受试者阅读了15首诗歌中的短诗行，每行都包含一个关联视觉与听觉特质的隐喻；受试者的任务是设定1000赫兹音调的响度以及白光的亮度，以匹配每个隐喻所暗示的水平。声音设置和灯光设置表明，响度与亮度之间的跨通道等效性在很大程度上构成了对隐喻的反应基础。这种普遍的跨通道等效性具有一些显著的个体间差异，并且部分地受到某些抵制完全等效的隐喻的影响。即便如此，隐喻引发的响度和亮度设置主要受一种跨通道匹配功能的支配，该功能在性质上类似于在视觉 - 听觉联觉者中发现的关系，在数量上类似于在更传统的心理物理学研究中获得的功能。
