Time course of neural activity correlated with colored-hearing synesthesia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 379-385

  Beeli, Gian ^a   Esslen, Michaela ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colored hearing; Colored perception; Cross modal; EEG; LORETA; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38849191085     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm072     Document Type: Article

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