The neural correlate of colour distances revealed with competing synaesthetic and real colours

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-331

  Laeng, Bruno ^a,b   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^b,c   Specht, Karsten ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Colour vision; FMRI; Neuroimaging; Stroop; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STROOP TEST; SYNAESTHETES;

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; STROOP TEST; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 78650993094     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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