When "3" is a jerk and "E" is a king: Personifying inanimate objects in synesthesia

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 981-992

  Smilek, Daniel ^a   Malcolmson, Kelly A ^a   Carriere, Jonathan S A ^a   Eller, Meghan ^a   Kwan, Donna ^a   Reynolds, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SENSATION; SYNESTHESIA;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34249797882     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.981     Document Type: Article

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