Sian Fitzpatrick

Increased positive and disorganised schizotypy in synaesthetes who experience colour from letters and tones

Cortex June 26, 2011 Michael J. Banissy, Josephine Cassell, Sian Fitzpatrick et al. 42 citations

Synaesthesia is a condition in which one property of a stimulus induces a conscious experience of an additional attribute. For example, in grapheme-colour synaesthesia, a visually presented grapheme results in synaesthetic experiences of colour. These experiences occur in approximately 4% of the population (Simner et al., 2006) and the authenticity of the condition is well established (Cohen...