Variants of synesthesia interact in cognitive tasks: Evidence for implicit associations and late connectivity in cross-talk theories

Neuroscience

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 805-814

  Simner, J ^a   Hubbard, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

connectivity; cross talk; gender; synaesthesia; synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENDER; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; SYNESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33751250510     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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