Social responsiveness to inanimate entities: Altered white matter in a ‘social synaesthesia’
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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...
The biggest extension of rights in Europe? Needs, rights and children with additional support needs in Scotland
Journal Article
Riddell, S., & Carmichael, D. (2019)
The biggest extension of rights in Europe? Needs, rights and children with additional support needs in Scotland. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(5), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2019.1580925
The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 boosted the rights of parents of children with additional support needs (ASN) by improving access to inform...
Is synaesthesia a dominantly female trait?
Journal Article
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 ...
Personality profile of child synaesthetes
Journal Article
Rinaldi, L., Smees, R., Carmichael, D., & Simner, J. (2020)
Personality profile of child synaesthetes. Frontiers in Bioscience, 12, 162-182
Previous research into personality and synaesthesia has focused on adult populations and yielded mixed results. One particular challenge has been to distinguish traits associa...
Genetics and Inheritance of Synaesthesia
Book Chapter
Asher, J. E., & Carmichael, D. A. (2013)
Genetics and Inheritance of Synaesthesia. In J. Simner, & E. M. Hubbard (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia (23-45). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199603329.013.0002
Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by anomalous sensory perceptions and associated alterations in cognitive function. This chapter summarises what is...
Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits
Journal Article
Tilot, A. K., Vino, A., Kucera, K. S., Carmichael, D. A., van den Heuvel, L., den Hoed, J., …Fisher, S. E. (2019)
Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0026
Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon affecting perception, where triggering stimuli (e.g. letters and numbers) elicit unusual secondary sensory experiences (e.g. colours)...
Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation
Journal Article
Simner, J., Smees, R., Rinaldi, L. J., & Carmichael, D. A. (2021)
Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation. Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite, 13(1), 195-215. https://doi.org/10.2741/878
Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental trait that causes unusual sensory experiences (e.g., perceiving colours when reading letters and numbers). Our paper represents the first ...
Cross-modal tactile–taste interactions in food evaluations
Journal Article
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...
Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: Evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia
Journal Article
Rinaldi, L. J., Smees, R., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2020)
Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: Evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Cortex, 126, 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.007
Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is a neurological trait that causes lifelong colour associations for letter and numbers. Synaesthesia studies have demonstrated differences betwee...