Synesthesia

J Ward - Annual review of psychology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

Defining synaesthesia

J Simner - British journal of psychology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of
qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual …

Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences

J Simner, C Mulvenna, N Sagiv, E Tsakanikos… - …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to
sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as …

Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision–touch synaesthesia

SJ Blakemore, D Bristow, G Bird, C Frith, J Ward - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we describe a new form of synaesthesia in which visual perception of touch
elicits conscious tactile experiences in the perceiver. We describe a female subject (C) for …

A standardized test battery for the study of synesthesia

DM Eagleman, AD Kagan, SS Nelson… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2007 - Elsevier
Synesthesia is an unusual condition in which stimulation of one modality evokes sensation
or experience in another modality. Although discussed in the literature well over a century …

Auditory imagery: empirical findings.

TL Hubbard - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
The empirical literature on auditory imagery is reviewed. Data on (a) imagery for auditory
features (pitch, timbre, loudness),(b) imagery for complex nonverbal auditory stimuli (musical …

What is the relationship between aphantasia, synaesthesia and autism?

CJ Dance, M Jaquiery, DM Eagleman… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
For people with aphantasia, visual imagery is absent or markedly impaired. Here, we
investigated the relationship between aphantasia and two other neurodevelopmental …

Non-random associations of graphemes to colours in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic populations

J Simner, J Ward, M Lanz, A Jansari… - Cognitive …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
This study shows that biases exist in the associations of letters with colours across
individuals both with and without grapheme-colour synaesthesia. A group of grapheme …

Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual factors

J Ward, J Simner - Cognition, 2003 - Elsevier
This study documents an unusual case of developmental synaesthesia, in which speech
sounds induce an involuntary sensation of taste that is subjectively located in the mouth. JIW …

Brain areas involved in synaesthesia: a review

R Rouw, HS Scholte, O Colizoli - Journal of neuropsychology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a recent upsurge of research, much remains unknown about the neurobiological
mechanisms underlying synaesthesia. By integrating results obtained so far in Magnetic …