The sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test of sequence-space synesthesia

People with sequence-space synesthesia (SSS) report stable visuo-spatial forms corresponding to numbers, days, and months (amongst others). This type of synesthesia has intrigued scientists for over 130 years but the lack of an agreed upon tool for assessing it has held back research on this phenome...

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Autores principales: Rothen, Nicolas, Jünemann, Kristin, Mealor, Andy D., Burckhardt, Vera, Ward, Jamie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26558902
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0656-2
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description People with sequence-space synesthesia (SSS) report stable visuo-spatial forms corresponding to numbers, days, and months (amongst others). This type of synesthesia has intrigued scientists for over 130 years but the lack of an agreed upon tool for assessing it has held back research on this phenomenon. The present study builds on previous tests by measuring the consistency of spatial locations that is known to discriminate controls from synesthetes. We document, for the first time, the sensitivity and specificity of such a test and suggest a diagnostic cut-off point for discriminating between the groups based on the area bounded by different placement attempts with the same item. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0656-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-51012862016-11-21 The sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test of sequence-space synesthesia Rothen, Nicolas Jünemann, Kristin Mealor, Andy D. Burckhardt, Vera Ward, Jamie Behav Res Methods Article People with sequence-space synesthesia (SSS) report stable visuo-spatial forms corresponding to numbers, days, and months (amongst others). This type of synesthesia has intrigued scientists for over 130 years but the lack of an agreed upon tool for assessing it has held back research on this phenomenon. The present study builds on previous tests by measuring the consistency of spatial locations that is known to discriminate controls from synesthetes. We document, for the first time, the sensitivity and specificity of such a test and suggest a diagnostic cut-off point for discriminating between the groups based on the area bounded by different placement attempts with the same item. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0656-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2015-11-11 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5101286/ /pubmed/26558902 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0656-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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