Understanding grapheme personification: A social synaesthesia?

Journal of Neuropsychology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-282

  Amin, Maina ^a   Olu Lafe, Olufemi ^a   Claessen, Loes E ^b,c   Sobczak Edmans, Monika ^b   Ward, Jamie ^d   Williams, Adrian L ^b   Sagiv, Noam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ASSOCIATION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80053037031     PISSN: 17486645     EISSN: 17486653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02016.x     Document Type: Article

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