Coloured Letters and Numbers (CLaN): A reliable factor-analysis based synaesthesia questionnaire

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1047-1060

  Rothen, Nicolas ^a   Tsakanikos, Elias ^b,c   Meier, Beat ^d   Ward, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colour; Consistency; Factor analysis; Questionnaire; Stroop; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLORED LETTERS AND NUMBERS; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYNESTHESIA; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COLOUR; CONSISTENCY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STROOP; SYNAESTHESIA;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84882731808     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.07.005     Document Type: Article

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