Disinhibited feedback as a cause of synesthesia: Evidence from a functional connectivity study on auditory-visual synesthetes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1471-1477

  Neufeld, J ^a,b   Sinke, C ^a,b   Zedler, M ^a   Dillo, W ^a   Emrich, H M ^a,b   Bleich, S ^a,b   Szycik, G R ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory visual; Connectivity; Disinhibited feedback; Inferior parietal; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYNESTHETES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINHIBITED FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATIENT; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNESTHESIA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYNESTHETES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861223054     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.032     Document Type: Article

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