Grapheme-colour synaesthesia improves detection of embeddedshapes,but without pre-attentive'pop-out'of synaesthetic colour

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1684, 2010, Pages 1021-1026

  Ward, Jamie ^a   Jonas, Clare ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^a   Seth, Anil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Colour; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COLOR; HOMINID; SENSORY SYSTEM;

EID: 77950813633     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1765     Document Type: Article

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