Mental imagery and synaesthesia: Is synaesthesia from internally-generated stimuli possible?

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 143-151

  Spiller, Mary Jane ^a   Jansari, Ashok S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Perception; Synaesthesia; Visual mental imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPILLOGRAPHY; STIMULUS; SYNAESTHESIA; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54249122469     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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