A different outlook on time: Visual and auditory month names elicit different mental vantage points for a time-space synaesthete

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1217-1228

  Jarick, Michelle ^a   Dixon, Mike J ^a   Stewart, Mark T ^b   Maxwell, Emily C ^b   Smilek, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial cueing; Spatial forms; Synaesthesia; Time space associations; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SENSATION; SYNESTHESIA; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549084434     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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