Colored halos around faces and emotion-evoked colors: A new form of synesthesia

Neurocase

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 352-358

  Ramachandran, Vilayanur S ^a   Miller, Luke ^a   Livingstone, Margaret S ^b   Brang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; ffa; Fusiform; Qualia; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; COLOR; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864692634     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2011.608366     Document Type: Article

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