The MULTISENSE Test of Lexical-Gustatory Synaesthesia: An automated online diagnostic. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2020 Lexical-gustatory (LG) synesthesia is an intriguing neurological condition in which individuals experience phantom tastes when hearing, speaking, reading, or thinking about words. For example, the word "society" might flood the mouth of an LG synesthete with the flavor of fried onion. The condition is usually verified in individuals by obtaining verbal
Ipser A, Ward J, Simner J.
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Lexical Synaesthesia in Metaphorical Collocations
Vestnik za Tuje JezikeThis study seeks to shed more light on the role of lexical synaesthesia (LS), a phenomenon exemplified by expressing one sense in terms of another (e.g., gustation for sound – a sweet melody), in the process of forming metaphorical collocations. Lexical
Jana Jurčević
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Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is associated with a distinct cognitive style [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 In this study we investigated whether synaesthesia is associated with a particular cognitive style. Cognitive style refers to preferred modes of information processing, such as a verbal style or a visual style.
Beat eMeier, Nicolas eRothen
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Enhanced Recognition Memory in Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia for Different Categories of Visual Stimuli [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Memory has been shown to be enhanced in grapheme-colour synaesthesia, and this enhancement extends to certain visual stimuli (that don’t induce synaesthesia) as well as stimuli comprised of graphemes (which do).
Jamie eWard +3 more
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The hypnagogic state: A brief update. [PDF]
J Sleep Res, 2023 Summary The hypnagogic state refers to a transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep, in which sensory perceptions can be experienced. In this review, we compile and discuss the recent scientific literature on hypnagogia research regarding the future directions proposed by Schacter (1976; Psychological Bulletin, 83, 452).
Ghibellini R, Meier B.
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Synaesthesia: a distinct entity that is an emergent feature of adaptive neurocognitive differences. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2019 In this article, I argue that synaesthesia is not on a continuum with neurotypical cognition. Synaesthesia is special: its phenomenology is different; it has distinct causal mechanisms; and is likely to be associated with a distinct neurocognitive ...
Ward J.
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Synesthesia and release phenomena in sensory and motor grounding. Cases of disinhibited embodiment? [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 syndrome Synesthesia is an unusual condition occur-ring in at least 4 % of the population (Simner et al., 2006) in which certain stimuli trigger unusual perceptions which the physical properties of the stimulus alone are not sufficient to account for ...
Gray BF, Simner J.
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Assessing sound symbolism: Investigating phonetic forms, visual shapes and letter fonts in an implicit bouba-kiki experimental paradigm. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Classically, in the bouba-kiki association task, a subject is asked to find the best association between one of two shapes-a round one and a spiky one-and one of two pseudowords-bouba and kiki.
Léa De Carolis +3 more
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The role of conceptual knowledge in understanding synaesthesia: Evaluating contemporary findings from a ‘hub-and-spoke’ perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Synaesthesia is a phenomenon in which stimulation in one sensory modality triggers involuntary experiences typically not associated with that stimulation.
Rocco eChiou +3 more
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Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Jamie Ward +2 more
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