Temporal sequences, synesthetic mappings, and cultural biases: The geography of time

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 311-320

  Brang, David ^a   Teuscher, Ursina ^b   Ramachandran, V S ^a   Coulson, Seana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calendar; Sequence form; SNARC; Spatial forms; Synaesthesia; Synesthesia; Time forms; Time space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME;

ASSOCIATION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; MEMORY; METAPHOR; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEASONS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649234030     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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