Synesthesia

被引:162
作者
Ward, Jamie [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Sch Psychol, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
[2] Univ Sussex, Sackler Ctr Consciousness Sci, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England
来源
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 64 | 2013年 / 64卷
关键词
color; synaesthesia; imagery; connectivity; multisensory; spatial; GRAPHEME-COLOR SYNAESTHESIA; AUDITORY-VISUAL SYNESTHESIA; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; NEURONAL CORRELATE; HEARING COLORS; NUMBER FORMS; NEURAL BASIS; PARIETAL; MEMORY; PREVALENCE;
D O I
10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143840
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding the mechanisms that give rise to it. The first part of the review considers the characteristics of synesthesia: its elicited nature, automaticity, prevalence, and consistency, and its perceptual and spatial phenomenology. The second part considers the causes of synesthesia both in terms of candidate neural mechanisms and the distal influences that shape this: genetic differences in developmental synesthesia and plasticity following sensory loss in acquired synesthesia. The final part considers developmental synesthesia as an individual difference in cognition and summarizes evidence of its influence on perception, imagery, memory, art/creativity, and numeracy.
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