Synaesthetic colours do not camouflage form in visual search

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1636, 2008, Pages 841-846

  Gheri, C ^a   Chopping, S ^b   Morgan, M J ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Low level sensory signals; Psychophysics; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COLOR; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR SYNESTHESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 39149125120     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1457     Document Type: Article

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