Do sequence-space synaesthetes have better spatial imagery skills? Maybe not

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2012, Pages

  Rizza, Aurora ^a   Price, Mark C ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mental rotation; Sequence space synaesthesia; Spatial form; Spatial imagery; Synaesthesia; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION TEST; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; OBJECT SPATIAL IMAGERY QUESTIONNAIRE; PAPER FOLDING TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SEQUENCE SPACE SYNAESTHESIA; SPATIAL IMAGERY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; STATISTICS; SYNESTHESIA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872818528     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-012-0459-7     Document Type: Article

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