Synesthesia and the McCollough Effect

Synesthetes, who see printed black letters and numbers as being colored, are thought to have enhanced cross-activation between brain modules for color and form. Since the McCollough effect also results from oriented contours (i.e., form) evoking specific colors, we conjectured that synesthetes may e...

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Autores principales: Ramachandran, V. S., Marcus, Zeve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28607666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517711718
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description Synesthetes, who see printed black letters and numbers as being colored, are thought to have enhanced cross-activation between brain modules for color and form. Since the McCollough effect also results from oriented contours (i.e., form) evoking specific colors, we conjectured that synesthetes may experience an enhanced McCollough effect, and find that this is indeed true.
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spelling pubmed-54558392017-06-12 Synesthesia and the McCollough Effect Ramachandran, V. S. Marcus, Zeve Iperception Short Report Synesthetes, who see printed black letters and numbers as being colored, are thought to have enhanced cross-activation between brain modules for color and form. Since the McCollough effect also results from oriented contours (i.e., form) evoking specific colors, we conjectured that synesthetes may experience an enhanced McCollough effect, and find that this is indeed true. SAGE Publications 2017-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5455839/ /pubmed/28607666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517711718 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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