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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Sensory Perception

Background:

  • Synaesthesia involves cross-modal sensory experiences.
  • Links between synaesthesia and altered social perception are suggested.
  • Grapheme-colour synaesthesia (GCS) is a specific form where letters/numbers evoke colors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate social perception abilities in individuals with grapheme-colour synaesthesia.
  • To compare facial identity and emotion perception in synaesthetes versus controls.
  • To explore potential links between synaesthesia and visual discrimination skills.

Main Methods:

  • Participants with GCS and neurotypical controls completed facial perception tasks.
  • Evaluated performance on facial identity discrimination.
  • Assessed facial emotion perception and holistic face processing.

Main Results:

  • Grapheme-colour synaesthetes demonstrated superior performance in fine visual discrimination of facial identity and emotion.
  • No significant differences were found in holistic face processing tasks.
  • Performance benefits in synaesthetes may relate to domain-general visual discrimination biases.

Conclusions:

  • Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is associated with enhanced fine-grained visual perception of faces.
  • These enhanced abilities might be linked to underlying visual processing characteristics of synaesthesia.
  • Findings contribute to understanding the cognitive profile of synaesthesia and its relation to social perception.