Ordinal linguistic personification as a variant of synesthesia

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 694-703

  Simner, Julia ^a   Holenstein, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNESTHESIA;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; NAMES; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 33947710804     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.4.694     Document Type: Article

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