Synaesthesia: The existing state of affairs

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-117

  Hochel, Matej ^a   Milán, Emilio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross modal perception; Neurocognitive models of synaesthesia; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETICS; HEARING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAESTHESIA;

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 40749085291     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701822815     Document Type: Article

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