Associative memory advantage in grapheme-colour synaesthetes compared to older, but not younger adults

Associative memory advantage in grapheme-colour synaesthetes compared to older, but not younger adults

People with grapheme-colour synaesthesia perceive enriched experiences of colours in response to graphemes (letters, digits). In this study, we examined whether these synaesthetes show a generic associative memory advantage for stimuli that do not elicit a synaesthetic colour. We used a novel betwee...

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Main Authors: Gaby ePfeifer, Nicolas eRothen, Jamie eWard, Dennis eChan, Natasha eSigala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Aging
Learning
Visual Perception
Signal detection
synaesthesia
retrieval
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00696/full

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