Inside a synesthete's head: A functional connectivity analysis with grapheme-color synesthetes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3363-3369

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

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Disinhibited feedback; Grapheme color; Inferior parietal; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNESTHESIA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84868304678     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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