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Sensory

Everything on this site about sensory — each one naming the study behind it.

You remember words significantly better if you read them aloud.
The production effect shows that articulating information improves memory compared to reading it silently.…
Holding a warm drink makes you judge others as warmer.
A 2008 study by Williams and Bargh reported this effect, but it has not held up under independent replication.…
You link abstract sounds to specific physical shapes.
Research by Ramachandran and Hubbard (2001) reported that 95% of participants associated the names as described, but t…