Color Processing in Synesthesia: What Synesthesia Can and Cannot Tell Us About Mechanisms of Color Processing

Agnieszka B. Janik McErlean; Michael J. Banissy

doi:10.1111/tops.12237

Color Processing in Synesthesia: What Synesthesia Can and Cannot Tell Us About Mechanisms of Color Processing

Agnieszka B. Janik McErlean^*, Michael J. Banissy

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Abstract

Synesthetic experiences of color have been traditionally conceptualized as a perceptual phenomenon. However, recent evidence suggests a role of higher order cognition in the formation of synesthetic experiences. Here, we discuss how synesthetic experiences of color differ from and influence veridical color processing, and how non-perceptual processes such as imagery and color memory might play a role in eliciting synesthetic color experience.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	215-227
Number of pages	13
Journal	Topics in Cognitive Science
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12237
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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Funding Information:
ABJ was supported by a PhD Studentship from the Economic and Social Research Council. MJB was supported by the BIAL Foundation (74/12) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K00882X/1).

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Keywords

Color imagery
Color memory
Color processing
Synesthesia
Synesthetic color
Veridical color

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Color Processing in Synesthesia: What Synesthesia Can and Cannot Tell Us About Mechanisms of Color Processing

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