A systematic association between attributes in different sensory modalities, such as pitch and visual size. It may influence matching, response compatibility or perceptual binding. Such an association does not by itself establish an additional synesthetic experience or multisensory fusion.
An association potentially mediated by shared pleasantness or affect. Manipulating pleasantness independently of the sensory relation helps distinguish a hedonic mediator from a direct sensory mapping.
An association mediated by shared meaning or labels across sensory attributes. Counterbalanced nonverbal responses and cross-language comparisons help test whether a common word is necessary.
A correspondence proposed to reflect learned co-occurrence or covariation of sensory attributes. A discriminating test changes the experienced relation while controlling exposure and tests transfer; a familiar pairing alone does not establish how it was acquired.
A proposed correspondence explained by organization shared across sensory dimensions or their neural codes. To distinguish this account from linguistic or learned environmental explanations, vary labels, task context and experience rather than identifying structure from agreement alone.
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