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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2019

Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading.

Rebecca Smees, James Hughes, Duncan A Carmichael, Julia Simner

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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 · 2021
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  2. Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rebecca SmeesDepartment of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
James HughesDepartment of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
Duncan A CarmichaelSchool of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK.
Julia SimnerDepartment of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
University of Sussex · GBEdinburgh Napier University · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive benefits associated with grapheme-colour synaesthesia in adults are well documented, but far less is known about whether such benefits might arise in synaesthetes as children. One previous study on a very small group of randomly sampled child synaesthetes found cognitive benefits in short-term memory and processing speed (the ability to quickly scan an array of images and discriminate between them), but was inconclusive for a test of receptive vocabulary. Using a stratified population sample (

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CognitionColor PerceptionAdolescentChildChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesColorFemaleHumansMaleReadingScotlandSynesthesiaVocabularyacademic self-conceptexpressive vocabularygrapheme-colourreceptive vocabularysentence comprehensionsynaesthesia

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PMID31630659
PMCPMC6834012
OpenAlexW2980881656

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