The ups and downs (and lefts and rights) of synaesthetic number forms: Validation from spatial cueing and SNARC-type tasks

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1190-1199

  Jarick, Michelle ^a   Dixon, Mike J ^a   Maxwell, Emily C ^b   Nicholls, Michael E R ^c   Smilek, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Number forms; SNARC effect; Spatial attention; Spatial cueing; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; RESPONSE TIME; SENSATION; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549130596     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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