Social responsiveness to inanimate entities: Altered white matter in a ‘social synaesthesia’
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Simner, J., Rehme, M., Carmichael, D., Bastin, M., Sprooten, E., McIntosh, A., …Zedler, M. (2016)
Social responsiveness to inanimate entities: Altered white matter in a ‘social synaesthesia’. Neuropsychologia, 91, 282-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.020
Judgments about personalities and social traits can be made by relatively brief exposure to animate living things. Here we show that unusual architecture in the microstructure...
Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading
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Smees, R., Hughes, J., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2019)
Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0348
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...
Is synaesthesia a dominantly female trait?
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Simner, J., & Carmichael, D. A. (2015)
Is synaesthesia a dominantly female trait?. Cognitive Neuroscience, 6(2-3), 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1019441
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 ...
Cross-modal tactile–taste interactions in food evaluations
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Slocombe, B., Carmichael, D., & Simner, J. (2016)
Cross-modal tactile–taste interactions in food evaluations. Neuropsychologia, 88, 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.011
Detecting the taste components within a flavoured substance relies on exposing chemoreceptors within the mouth to the chemical components of ingested food. In our paper, we sh...
Do sequence-space synaesthetes have better spatial imagery skills? Yes, but there are individual differences
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Havlik, A. M., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2015)
Do sequence-space synaesthetes have better spatial imagery skills? Yes, but there are individual differences. Cognitive Processing, 16(3), 245-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0657-1
People with sequence-space synaesthesia perceive sequences (e.g. numbers, months, letters) as spatially extended forms. Here, we ask whether sequence-space synaesthetes have a...
Different dimensions of cognitive style in typical and atypical cognition: new evidence and a new measurement tool
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Mealor, A. D., Simner, J., Rothen, N., Carmichael, D. A., & Ward, J. (2016)
Different dimensions of cognitive style in typical and atypical cognition: new evidence and a new measurement tool. PLOS ONE, 11(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155483
We developed the Sussex Cognitive Styles Questionnaire (SCSQ) to investigate visual and verbal processing preferences and incorporate global/local processing orientations and ...
Validating a standardised test battery for synesthesia: Does the Synesthesia Battery reliably detect synesthesia?
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Carmichael, D., Down, M., Shillcock, R., Eagleman, D., & Simner, J. (2015)
Validating a standardised test battery for synesthesia: Does the Synesthesia Battery reliably detect synesthesia?. Consciousness and Cognition, 33, 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.02.001
Synesthesia is a neurological condition that gives rise to unusual secondary sensations (e.g., reading letters might trigger the experience of colour). Testing the consistency...
The immune hypothesis of synesthesia
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Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2013)
The immune hypothesis of synesthesia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 563. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00563
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