Sentences with phrase «studies synesthesia»

«It's very exciting,» says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn't involved in the study.

Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

Not exact matches

If the findings pan out, studying neuronal connections in synesthesia could be a boon to autism researchers.

A study in the Journal of Neuroscience in February bolsters this idea using rare individuals with «mirror - touch synesthesia.»

Indeed, Sathian notes that one study suggests that a popular brand of refrigerator magnets had an influence on what letter - color associations people with this form of synesthesia developed.

A connection between letters or other symbols and colors, also known as «grapheme - color» synesthesia, was the most common type in the Emory study.

Brain imaging studies have shown that people with synesthesia tend to be wired differently: they display hyperconnectivity between parts of their brains related to their synesthetic experiences.

Participants in the study were recruited through advertisements on the Emory campus and screened with an online test called the Synesthesia Battery.

Sathian and collaborator Lynne Nygaard, professor of psychology, are exploring the neural bases of cross-modal correspondences and of synesthesia using brain imaging studies.

«Of the four highly hypnotizable participants in the study, three showed a strong synesthesia - like association between symbol and color, as shown by their verbal reports and confirmed by eye tracking.

A new study has found a link between autism and synesthesia, a condition when one sense triggers another (like seeing sounds in color).

Most synesthesia is rare, affecting just 4 percent of the population, but this new study suggests that «hearing motion synesthesia» is much more prevalent.