Weiss, Franziska and Greenlee, Mark W. and Volberg, Gregor (2018) Gray Bananas and a Red Letter A-From Synesthetic Sensation to Memory Colors. I-PERCEPTION, 9 (3): 2041669518. ISSN 2041-6695,
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Grapheme-color synesthesia is a condition in which objectively achromatic graphemes induce concurrent color experiences. While it was long thought that the colors emerge during perception, there is growing support for the view that colors are integral to synesthetes' cognitive representations of graphemes. In this work, we review evidence for two opposing theories positing either a perceptual or cognitive origin of concurrent colors: the cross-activation theory and the conceptual-mediation model. The review covers results on inducer and concurrent color processing as well as findings concerning the brain structure and grapheme-color mappings in synesthetes and trained mappings in nonsynesthetes. The results support different aspects of both theories. Finally, we discuss how research on memory colors could provide a new perspective in the debate about the level of processing at which the synesthetic colors occur.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | STANDARDIZED TEST BATTERY; GRAPHEME-COLOR; DEFINING SYNAESTHESIA; VISUAL-PERCEPTION; SPATIAL ATTENTION; FORM AREA; TELL US; ASSOCIATIONS; CORTEX; ACTIVATION; color; multisensory processing; perception; synesthesia; cross-activation theory; conceptual-mediation model; memory colors |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2020 12:02 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2020 12:02 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14552 |
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