Table 1 Number of participants (N = 51) who chose the same colour (from a choice of 12 colours) to match each of the four basic tastes on three separate occasions

From: On tasty colours and colourful tastes? Assessing, explaining, and utilizing crossmodal correspondences between colours and basic tastes

	Red	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Violet	Brown	Black	White	Grey	Silver	Gold
Sweet	7	3	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0
Sour	0	2	10	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Salty	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	1	0	0
Bitter	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	3	0	2	0	0

Note that any value greater than 0.0295 in the table indicates that the regularity with which the colour was chosen by the participant was significantly greater than that expected by chance. (Data taken from [35], Table 1)

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