Synaesthetic consistency spans decades in a lexical-gustatory synaesthete

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 358-365

  Simner, Julia ^a   Logie, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consistency; Cross modal; Memory; Synesthesia; Taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LEXICAL GUSTATORY SYNAESTHETE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PHONETICS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE DISORDER; WORD RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; TASTE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TASTE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149296062     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701851502     Document Type: Article

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