Impaired acquisition of novel grapheme-color correspondences in synesthesia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Brang, David ^a,b   Ghiam, Michael ^b   Ramachandran, Vilayanur S ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grapheme; Language; Learning; Synaesthesia; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAPHEME COLOR SYNESTHESIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; SENSATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84887892782     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00717     Document Type: Article

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