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A systematic, large-scale study of synaesthesia: implications for the role of early experience in lexical-colour associations
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It is suggested that the development of lexical-colour synaesthesia in many cases incorporates early learning experiences common to all individuals, and that the learning of such sequences during an early critical period determines the particular pattern of lexicals-colour links and that this pattern then generalises to other words.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2005-11-01. It has received 289 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Synesthesia.read more
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Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences
Julia Simner,Catherine Mulvenna,Noam Sagiv,Elias Tsakanikos,Sarah A Witherby,Christine Fraser,Kirsten M. Scott,Jamie Ward +7 more
TL;DR: The first test of synaesthesia prevalence with sampling that does not rely on self-referral, and which uses objective tests to establish genuineness is presented, and it is suggested that female biases reported earlier likely arose from (or were exaggerated by) sex differences in self-disclosure.
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A standardized test battery for the study of synesthesia
David M. Eagleman,Arielle D. Kagan,Arielle D. Kagan,Stephanie S. Nelson,Deepak Sagaram,Anand K. Sarma +5 more
TL;DR: The Synesthesia Battery is devised, a unified collection of tests that demonstrate the reality of the condition, its automatic and involuntary nature, and its measurable perceptual consequences, and is freely accessible online.
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Defining synaesthesia: Defining synaesthesia
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that might argue against previous claims that synaesthesia is a 'merging of the senses', which gives rise to consistent synaesthetic associations over time and the possible benefits of moving from a behavioural definition to a neurobiological one and the ways in which this might force a rethink about the potential outermost boundaries of this fascinating condition.
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What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?
TL;DR: The presence of synaesthetic colour sensations enhances the tendency to explicitly represent numbers in a visuo-spatial format although the two symptoms may nevertheless be logically independent (i.e. it is possible to have number forms without colour, and coloured numbers without forms).
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Synesthesia: a new approach to understanding the development of perception.
Ferrinne Spector,Daphne Maurer +1 more
TL;DR: A new theoretical framework for understanding intersensory development is introduced, based upon insights gained from adults who experience synesthesia, that appears to reflect intrinsic sensory cortical organization that influences the development of perception and of language and that may constrain the learning of environmentally based associations.
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