Number synaesthesia: When hearing "four plus five" looks like gold

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-258

  Jansari, Ashok ^a   Spiller, Mary Jane ^a   Redfern, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic operators; Auditory; Colour; Number processing; Synaesthesia; Visual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSESTHESIA; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33646203424     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70350-2     Document Type: Article

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