Journal article
Synesthesia: when colors count.
- Knoch D Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland. daria.knoch@usz.ch
- Gianotti LR
- Mohr C
- Brugger P
- 2005-06-07
Published in:
- Brain research. Cognitive brain research. - 2005
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Case-Control Studies
Cognition
Color Perception
Female
Humans
Male
Models, Psychological
Neuropsychological Tests
Perceptual Disorders
Photic Stimulation
Reaction Time
Verbal Behavior
English
A tacitly held assumption in synesthesia research is the unidirectionality of digit-color associations. This notion is based on synesthetes' report that digits evoke a color percept, but colors do not elicit any numerical impression. In a random color generation task, we found evidence for an implicit co-activation of digits by colors, a finding that constrains neurological theories concerning cross-modal associations in general and synesthesia in particular.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.05.005
- PMID 15936180
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/210664
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