Developmental aspects of synaesthesia across the adult lifespan

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Meier, Beat ^a   Rothen, Nicolas ^b   Walter, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age related changes; Color perception; Consistency; Synaesthesia attrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUE; BROWN; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR EXPERIENCE; COLOR VISION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAPHEME COLOR SYNAESTHETES; GREEN; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PERCEPTION; RED; SENESCENCE; SYNAESTHESIA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896933206     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00129     Document Type: Article

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