ArticleCognitive neuroscience2015
Is synaesthesia a dominantly female trait?
Article in Cognitive neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Neural mechanisms of costly helping in the general population and mirror-pain synesthetes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Investigation of the relationship between neuroplasticity and grapheme-color synesthesia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- An Open Science MRI Database of over 100 Synaesthetic Brains and Accompanying Deep Phenotypic Information.Scientific data · 2023Article
- How do Different Types of Synesthesia Cluster Together? Implications for Causal Mechanisms.Perception · 2022Article
- Language evolution: examining the link between cross-modality and aggression through the lens of disorders.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Investigating genetic links between grapheme-colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Deepening understanding of language through synaesthesia: a call to reform and expand.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Cross-modal associations and synesthesia: Categorical perception and structure in vowel-color mappings in a large online sample.Behavior research methods · 2019Article
- 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
- Rare variants in axonogenesis genes connect three families with sound-color synesthesia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Synaesthesia is a familial condition that gives rise to unusual secondary percepts. We present a large-scale prevalence study which informs our ideas on whether the condition is more prevalent in men or women. A number of studies over the last 20 years have suggested the condition is found more commonly in women, with up to six times more female synaesthetes than male. Other studies attributed this female bias to merely a recruitment confound: women synaesthetes may be more likely to self-refer for study. We offer two pieces of evidence that there is no extreme female bias in synaesthesia: first we re-analyse previous reports of very large female biases to show again that they likely arose from self-referral or other methodological issues. Second, we present the largest published prevalence study to date on grapheme→colour synaesthesia in which our prevalence (1.39% of the population) replicates our earlier estimates (and in which we demonstrate no strong female bias even with sufficient power to detect such a difference.
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