Synesthesia, sensory-motor contingency, and semantic emulation: How swimming style-color synesthesia challenges the traditional view of synesthesia

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Mroczko Wasowicz, Aleksandra ^a,b   Werning, Markus ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Emulative semantics; Frames; Hyperbinding; Mirror neuron system; Sensory motor contingency; Simulation; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867124502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00279     Document Type: Article

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