Pseudo-Synesthesia through reading books with colored letters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Colizoli, Olympia ^a   Murre, Jaap M J ^a   Rouw, Romke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR VISION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSEUDOSYNESTHESIA; READING; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COLOR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; READING;

EID: 84862996851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039799     Document Type: Article

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