Enhanced dimension-specific visual working memory in grapheme-color synesthesia

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-137

  Terhune, Devin Blair ^a   Wudarczyk, Olga Anna ^a   Kochuparampil, Priya ^a   Cohen Kadosh, Roi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color processing; Grapheme processing; N Back; Synesthesia; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAPHEME COLOR SYNESTHESIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

COLOR-PROCESSING; GRAPHEME-PROCESSING; N-BACK; SYNESTHESIA; VISUAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880795942     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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