Does binding of synesthetic color to the evoking grapheme require attention?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 232-242

  Sagiv, Noam ^a,b   Heer, Jeffrey ^a   Robertson, Lynn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Synesthesia; The binding problem; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 33646178767     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70348-4     Document Type: Article

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