ArticleBritish journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)2019
Creativity and involvement in art in different types of synaesthesia.
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- Voice-Evoked Color Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks in Sound-Color Synesthesia.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Perceptual and semantic maps in individual humans share structural features that predict creative abilities.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Rainbows in my ears-Synesthetic color perception with partial-reduced and morphed musical instrument timbres.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum-a twin study.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Investigating genetic links between grapheme-colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 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
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to test the relationship between different types of synaesthesia and their involvement in art, creative, and visual abilities. We tested 20 grapheme-colour, 18 sound-colour, 19 grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour, 20 sequence-space synaesthetes, and the same number of controls matched by age, gender, and education. We assessed the number of artistic professions, involvement in art, and the performance in psychometric tests of divergent and convergent creativity, as well as visual and visuo-spatial abilities. Results show a higher prevalence of artists among synaesthetes, especially sound-colour synaesthetes. Sound-colour synaesthetes also showed a higher involvement in artistic activities overall while sequence-space synaesthetes showed higher involvement in visual art. Only grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour synaesthetes showed significantly higher divergent creativity compared to matched controls. Additionally, overall, synaesthetes scored higher in visuo-spatial abilities (i.e., mental rotation). For synaesthetes and controls, visuo-spatial abilities correlated with divergent creativity. We discuss that synaesthetes' higher involvement in art is not necessarily reflected in their basic creative abilities.
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