Increased positive and disorganised schizotypy in synaesthetes who experience colour from letters and tones

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1085-1087

  Banissy, Michael J ^a   Cassell, Josephine E ^b   Fitzpatrick, Sian ^c   Ward, Jamie ^d   Walsh, Vincent X ^a   Muggleton, Neil G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SYNAESTHESIA; THOUGHT DISORDER;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84863777653     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.009     Document Type: Letter

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