Psychophysical investigations into the neural basis of synaesthesia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1470, 2001, Pages 979-983

  Ramachandran, V S ^a   Hubbard, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate visual areas; Multisensory; Psychophysics; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LITERATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SYNAESTHESIA;

EID: 0035820850     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1576     Document Type: Article

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