The role of meaning in grapheme-colour synaesthesia

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-252

  Dixon, Mike J ^a   Smilek, Daniel ^a   Duffy, Patricia L ^a   Zanna, Mark P ^a   Merikle, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digits; Grapheme colour; Letters; Meaning; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33644826986     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70349-6     Document Type: Article

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