Formation of automatic letter-colour associations in non-synaesthetes through likelihood manipulation of letter-colour pairings

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3641-3652

  Kusnir, Flor ^a   Thut, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association learning; Grapheme colour synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC LETTER COLOR ASSOCIATION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAPHEME COLOR ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STROOP TEST; SYNESTHESIA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868597205     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.032     Document Type: Article

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