Psychophysiological evidence for the genuineness of swimming-style colour synaesthesia

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 35-46

  Rothen, Nicolas ^a   Nikolić, Danko ^b,c   Jürgens, Uta Maria ^b,d   Mroczko Wasowicz, Aleksandra ^e   Cock, Josephine ^a   Meier, Beat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Cross activation; Disinhibited feedback; Re entrant feedback; Stroop; Synaesthesia; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STROOP TEST; SWIMMING; SWIMMING STYLE COLOR SYNESTHESIA;

EID: 84871728355     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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