Increased structural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 792-797

  Rouw, Romke ^a   Scholte, H Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34249751540     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1906     Document Type: Article

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