Rocco Chiou

Exploring the functional nature of synaesthetic colour: Dissociations from colour perception and imagery.

Cognition August 2018 Rocco Chiou, Anina N Rich, Sebastian Rogers et al.

Individuals with grapheme-colour synaesthesia experience anomalous colours when reading achromatic text. These unusual experiences have been said to resemble 'normal' colour perception or colour imagery, but studying the nature of synaesthesia remains difficult. In the present study, we report novel evidence that synaesthetic colour impacts conscious vision in a way that is different from both...