Grapheme-color synesthetes show enhanced crossmodal processing between auditory and visual modalities

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 630-637

  Brang, David ^a   Williams, Lisa E ^b   Ramachandran, Vilayanur S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Crossmodal; Multimodal; Multisensory; Synesthesia; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSMODAL PROCESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; REACTION TIME; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 82455214239     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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