Ideaesthesia: Conceptual processes assign similar colours to similar shapes

Translational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-27

  Jürgens, Uta Maria ^a,b   Nikolić, Danko ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual mechanisms; Grapheme colour synaesthesia; Ideaesthesia; Multidimensional scaling; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDEAESTHESIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84858380688     PISSN: 20813856     EISSN: 20816936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13380-012-0010-4     Document Type: Article

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