| Title |
Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Experimental Brain Research, June 2009
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00221-009-1888-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael J. Banissy, Vincent Walsh, Jamie Ward |
| Abstract |
Previous findings imply that synaesthetic experience may have consequences for sensory processing of stimuli that do not themselves trigger synaesthesia. For example, synaesthetes who experience colour show enhanced perceptual processing of colour compared to non-synaesthetes. This study aimed to investigate whether enhanced perceptual processing was a core property of synaesthesia by contrasting tactile and colour sensitivity in synaesthetes who experience either colour, touch, or both touch and colour as evoked sensations. For comparison the performance of non-synaesthetic control subjects was also assessed. There was a relationship between the modality of synaesthetic experience and the modality of sensory enhancement. Synaesthetes who experience colour have enhanced colour sensitivity and synaesthetes who experience touch have enhanced tactile sensitivity. These findings suggest the possibility that a hyper-sensitive concurrent perceptual system is a general property of synaesthesia and are discussed in relation to theories of the condition. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 5% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Belgium | 2 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 134 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 24 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 14% |
| Professor | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 30 | 20% |
| Unknown | 21 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 78 | 52% |
| Neuroscience | 16 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 9% |
| Unknown | 28 | 19% |
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