Synaesthetic colour in the brain: beyond colour areas. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of synaesthetes and matched controls.
PLoS ONE. 2010; 5(8):e12074
Paul Fletcher and Phil Corlett
24 Aug 2010
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New Finding
In synaesthesia, an object or symbol has sensory properties that would not normally be associated with it. Here, van Leeuwen and colleagues show that the neural basis for synaesthetic colours is separable from the experience of ‘real’ colours. This has important implications for our understanding of how and why synaesthesia occurs.
Synaesthesia...
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