How Sound Symbolism Is Processed in the Brain: A Study on Japanese Mimetic Words

• Junko Kanero ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junko Kanero, Mutsumi Imai

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mutsumi Imai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junko Kanero, Mutsumi Imai

  Affiliation Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa, Endo, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Jiro Okuda,

  Affiliation Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo-Motoyama, Kita-Ku, Kyoto, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Okada,

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Systems, College of Engineering, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tetsuya Matsuda

  * E-mail: tetsuya@lab.tamagawa.ac.jp

  Affiliation Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute, Machida, Tokyo, Japan

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