The sound of a person's voice triggers specific taste sensations.
Inducer
voice
Concurrent
taste
Category
Auditory Gustatory
Voice-taste synesthesia causes the sound of a person's voice to trigger specific, consistent taste sensations. Different voices produce different flavors — one person's voice might taste like warm bread while another's tastes metallic. This can influence social preferences, as synesthetes may find certain voices 'delicious' and others unpleasant.
Ward, J. & Simner, J. (2003). Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia. Cognition, 89(3).
View publication →Simner, J. & Ward, J. (2006). The taste of words on the tip of the tongue. Nature, 444.
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