Do children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits?
Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is characterized by conscious and consistent associations between letters and colours, or between numbers and colours (e.g., synaesthetes might see A as red, 7 as green). Our study explored the development of this condition in a group of randomly sampled child synaesthet...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 109; no. 1; pp. 118 - 137 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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