Orange Is Less Than Green: An Examination of Bidirectionality in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia. (August 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Orange Is Less Than Green: An Examination of Bidirectionality in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia. (August 2018)
- Main Title:
- Orange Is Less Than Green: An Examination of Bidirectionality in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia
- Authors:
- Drew, Stefanie A.
Awad, Jasmine F.
Hackney, Brandon C.
Fenn, Elise - Abstract:
- Grapheme-color synesthetes experience a sense of color when viewing graphemes (e.g., digits and letters). Traditionally, these synesthetic perceptions are considered to be unidirectional, where viewing a grapheme elicits a nonveridical sensation of color, but viewing a color does not induce a reciprocal sense of a grapheme. A growing body of research has emerged that suggests the potential for bidirectional percepts, wherein color facilitates additional grapheme perception. We present here a novel paradigm in which we presented two sets of pure color patches, based on synesthete's reported colors, side-by-side and asked participants to indicate the color patch with the greater affiliated magnitude. Results indicated that the odds of answering correctly on trials were significantly greater for synesthetes (80.2% accuracy) than nonsynesthetes (52.1% accuracy). These results are aligned with other reports that support the notion of inducing a sense of magnitude from color in synesthetes. These findings challenge the traditional model of synesthesia as a unidirectional phenomenon and have implications of the neuronal communications that underlie perception in general.
- Is Part Of:
- Perception. Volume 47:Number 8(2018)
- Journal:
- Perception
- Issue:
- Volume 47:Number 8(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 47, Issue 8 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 47
- Issue:
- 8
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0047-0008-0000
- Page Start:
- 881
- Page End:
- 891
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08
- Subjects:
- bidirectionality -- color -- grapheme-color -- synesthesia
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153.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://pec.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.pion.co.uk/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0301006618779485 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0301-0066
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- Legaldeposit
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