Crossmodal correspondences between visual features (eg, color/shape) and tastes have
been extensively documented in recent years. Visual colors and shapes have been shown …

In this thematic issue, several mechanisms of tumor dormancy and relapse are discussed.
The reviews suggest mutual interactions and communications between malignant cells and …

The number of items in an array can be quickly and accurately estimated by dividing the
array into subgroups, in a strategy termed “groupitizing.” For example, when memorizing a …

Our sensory system is able to build a unified perception of the world, which although rich, is
limited and inaccurate. Sometimes, features from different objects are erroneously …

Colors have been reported to be associated with genders (eg, reddish color—females).
Here, we investigated color-gender associations (red-female/green-male) among Japanese …

Much research has been done on the relationship between emotions and colors, and many
color scheme recommendation tools have been developed. These tools can often help …

Non-synesthetes exhibit a tendency to associate specific shapes with particular colors (ie,
circle–red, triangle–yellow, and square–blue). Such color–shape associations (CSAs) could …

Grapheme–color synesthesia is expected to provide a clue to solving the “binding problem”
of visual features. Synesthetic research uses non-synesthetes as a control group and shows …

Previous studies of illusory conjunction (IC) mainly focused on alphabetic languages, while
researchers have poorly understood the IC mechanism of Chinese words as an ideographic …

Our sensory system is able to build a unified perception of the world, which although rich, is
limited and inaccurate. Sometimes, features from different objects are erroneously …