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 …

Beyond perception: synaesthesia as a psycholinguistic phenomenon

J Simner - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
Synaesthesia has been described as a perceptual phenomenon that creates a 'merging of
senses'. Therefore, academic treatments have focused primarily on its sensory …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Synaesthesia and cortical connectivity

G Bargary, KJ Mitchell - Trends in neurosciences, 2008 - cell.com
Synaesthesia is a heritable condition of involuntary sensory cross-activation whereby the
presentation of a particular stimulus elicits a secondary sensory-perceptual experience. It is …

Ordinal linguistic personification as a variant of synesthesia

J Simner, E Holenstein - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
This study examines the principles underlying ordinal linguistic personification (OLP): the
involuntary and automatic tendency in certain individuals to attribute animate-like qualities …

Synaesthesia: an overview of contemporary findings and controversies

J Ward, JB Mattingley - Cortex, 2006 - Elsevier
Research on synaesthesia is undergoing something of a renaissance, having initially been
a hot topic in psychology and philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One …

Is synaesthesia an X-linked dominant trait with lethality in males?

J Ward, J Simner - Perception, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
In previous research the inheritance patterns of synaesthesia (eg experiencing colours from
graphemes) has been studied and it was concluded that synaesthesia is most likely to be …