When conditioned responses "fire back": Bidirectional cross-activation creates learning opportunities in synesthesia

Neuroscience

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-572

  Meier, B ^a   Rothen, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

classical conditioning; electrodermal activity; grapheme color binding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SYNESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34250802009     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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