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Synesthesia is a remarkable condition where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People with synesthesia experience a blending or crossing of their senses, such as sight and sound, leading to cross-modal sensations. In this condition, the stimulation of one sense, such as hearing a number or musical note, triggers an experience of another sense, like sensing a specific color, taste, or smell. People...
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Wim Gevers1, Ineke Imbo, Roi Cohen Kadosh

  • 1Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. wim.gevers@ulb.ac.be

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Color-grapheme synesthesia, where numbers evoke colors, is shown to be bidirectional. Color perception influences numerical processing, impacting tasks like multiplication verification by facilitating or interfering with results.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Color-grapheme synesthesia involves automatic color perception of achromatic numbers.
  • Historically, synesthesia was considered unidirectional, with sensory input triggering a specific percept.
  • Recent research suggests bidirectional pathways in synesthesia, challenging the unidirectional model.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the bidirectionality of color-grapheme synesthesia.
  • To determine if color perception influences numerical processing in multiplication verification tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a multiplication verification task (e.g., 7 x 2 = 14, true/false?).
  • Presented achromatic numbers and assessed the influence of color perception on numerical magnitude processing.

Main Results:

  • Confirmed that color presentation evokes numerical magnitudes, consistent with previous findings.
  • Demonstrated that color influences numerical information processing in multiplication verification.
  • Observed that color perception can both facilitate and interfere with digit-related information processing.

Conclusions:

  • The influence of color on numerical processing extends to multiplication verification tasks.
  • Synesthetic connections between color and number are bidirectional.
  • Color perception plays a complex role in numerical cognition, with potential for both enhancement and disruption.