Training grapheme-colour associations produces a synaesthetic Stroop effect, but not a conditioned synaesthetic response

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1208-1211

  Meier, Beat ^a   Rothen, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Skin conductance response; Stroop effect; Synaesthesia; Training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549116844     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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