When blue is larger than red: colors influence numerical cognition in synesthesia.

Journal article

In synesthesia, certain stimuli ("inducers") may give rise to perceptual experience in additional modalities not normally associated with them ("concurrent"). For example, color-grapheme synesthetes automatically perceive achromatic numbers as colored (e.g., 7 is turquoise). Although synesthetes know when a given color matches the one evoked by a certain number, colors do not automatically give rise to any sort of number experience. The behavioral consequences of synesthesia have been documen...

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Authors: Cohen Kadosh, R; Sagiv, N; Linden, D; Robertson, L; Elinger, G

• Journal: Journal of cognitive neuroscience
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 1766-1773
• Publication date: 2005-11-01
• DOI: 10.1162/089892905774589181
• EISSN: 1530-8898
• ISSN: 0898-929X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Form Perception; Photic Stimulation; Color Perception; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Humans; Reaction Time; Learning; Female; Cognition; Adult