Neural correlates of imagined and synaesthetic colours

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2918-2925

  Rich, Anina N ^a,b   Williams, Mark A ^a,c   Puce, Aina ^d,e   Syngeniotis, Ari ^f   Howard, Matthew A ^g   McGlone, Francis ^g   Mattingley, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^g UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour imagery; fMRI; Occipitotemporal cortex; Synaesthesia; V4; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33749630798     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.024     Document Type: Article

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