Bidirectional lexical-gustatory synesthesia

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1738-1743

  Richer, François ^a   Beaufils, Guillaume Alexandre ^a   Poirier, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical events; Brain development; Consciousness; Insula; Oral sensations; Plasticity; Timbre; Voice processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIDIRECTIONAL LEXICAL GUSTATORY SYNESTHESIA; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SENSATION; SOUND; TASTE; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TASTE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054856343     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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