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Although some perception metaphors are quite widespread across languages, it is crucial to remember that perception metaphors vary in terms of their distribution, their motivation (sensorimotor experience is shared but culture differs), and the verbal and multimodal resources encoding perception metaphors. In "Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical", Winter argues that "synaesthetic metaphors" are neither synesthetic nor metaphorical, in that "synaesthesia" mentioned in the neuropsychological literature has little connection with these metaphors, and moreover, many "synaesthetic metaphors" involve mappings between highly similar and integrated perceptual modalities. [Extracted from the article]