ArticleCognition2013
Enhanced dimension-specific visual working memory in grapheme-color synesthesia.
Article in Cognition, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Training synesthetic letter-color associations by reading in color.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2014Trial
- Sharing the load: How a personally coloured calculator for grapheme-colour synaesthetes can reduce processing costs.PloS one · 2021Article
- Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Stochastic resonance model of synaesthesia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Grapheme-Color Synesthesia is Associated with PTSD Among Deployed Veterans: Confirmation of Previous Findings and Need for Additional Research.International journal of emergency mental health · 2019Article
- Reduced Visual and Frontal Cortex Activation During Visual Working Memory in Grapheme-Color Synaesthetes Relative to Young and Older Adults.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2019Article
- Phosphene Perception Relates to Visual Cortex Glutamate Levels and Covaries with Atypical Visuospatial Awareness.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2015Article
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- Adults can be trained to acquire synesthetic experiences.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- Probing the neurochemical basis of synaesthesia using psychophysics.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Synesthesia and learning: a critical review and novel theory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
- Defining (trained) grapheme-color synesthesia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- Grapheme-color synaesthesia is associated with a distinct cognitive style.Frontiers in psychology · 2013Article
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Abstract
There is emerging evidence that the encoding of visual information and the maintenance of this information in a temporarily accessible state in working memory rely on the same neural mechanisms. A consequence of this overlap is that atypical forms of perception should influence working memory. We examined this by investigating whether having grapheme-color synesthesia, a condition characterized by the involuntary experience of color photisms when reading or representing graphemes, would confer benefits on working memory. Two competing hypotheses propose that superior memory in synesthesia results from information being coded in two information channels (dual-coding) or from superior dimension-specific visual processing (enhanced processing). We discriminated between these hypotheses in three n-back experiments in which controls and synesthetes viewed inducer and non-inducer graphemes and maintained color or grapheme information in working memory. Synesthetes displayed superior color working memory than controls for both grapheme types, whereas the two groups did not differ in grapheme working memory. Further analyses excluded the possibilities of enhanced working memory among synesthetes being due to greater color discrimination, stimulus color familiarity, or bidirectionality. These results reveal enhanced dimension-specific visual working memory in this population and supply further evidence for a close relationship between sensory processing and the maintenance of sensory information in working memory.
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