Parieto-occipital suppression eliminates implicit bidirectionality in grapheme-colour synaesthesia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3482-3487

  Rothen, Nicolas ^a   Nyffeler, Thomas ^b   von Wartburg, Roman ^b   Müri, René ^b   Meier, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bidirectionality; Synaesthesia; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COLOR SYNESTHESIA; COLOR VISION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; SENSORY EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957303854     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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