What information is critical to elicit interference in number-form synaesthesia?

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1200-1216

  Hubbard, Edward M ^a   Ranzini, Mariagrazia ^a,b   Piazza, Manuela ^a,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,d  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Number forms; SNARC; Synesthesia synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; RESPONSE TIME; SENSATION; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 69249160238     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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