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| Title |
A critical review of the neuroimaging literature on synesthesia
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00103 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jean-Michel Hupé, Michel Dojat |
| Abstract |
Synesthesia refers to additional sensations experienced by some people for specific stimulations, such as the systematic arbitrary association of colors to letters for the most studied type. Here, we review all the studies (based mostly on functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging) that have searched for the neural correlates of this subjective experience, as well as structural differences related to synesthesia. Most differences claimed for synesthetes are unsupported, due mainly to low statistical power, statistical errors, and methodological limitations. Our critical review therefore casts some doubts on whether any neural correlate of the synesthetic experience has been established yet. Rather than being a neurological condition (i.e., a structural or functional brain anomaly), synesthesia could be reconsidered as a special kind of childhood memory, whose signature in the brain may be out of reach with present brain imaging techniques. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 34 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 15% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 16 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 21 | 62% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 18% |
| Scientists | 5 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 212 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 198 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 47 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 29 | 14% |
| Researcher | 28 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 9% |
| Unknown | 41 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 65 | 31% |
| Neuroscience | 41 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 33 | 16% |
| Unknown | 46 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2023.
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