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Current Researchers and their Theories of synesthesia

 

 

 

 

 

Baron-Cohen

Hubbard

Robertson

 

 

Cytowic

Laeng

Sagiv

 

  Day Martino Simner  

 

Dixon

Mattingley

Smilek

 

 

Grossenbacher

Merikle

van Campen

 

 

 

Ramachandran

Ward

 

 

Rich

Weiss

 

   

 

Simon Baron-Cohen

Baron-Cohen, Simon, and John E. Harrison, editors. 1997. Synaesthesia: Classic and
         Contemporary Readings. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
 
Baron-Cohen, Simon. 1996. "Is There a Normal Phase of Synaesthesia in Development? " Psyche;
         volume 2.
 
Baron-Cohen, Simon, John Harrison, Laura H. Goldstein, and Maria Wyke. 1993. "Coloured
         Speech Perception: Is Synaesthesia What Happens When Modularity Breaks Down?" 
         Perception; volume 22: 419-426.
 
Baron-Cohen, Simon, Maria A. Wyke, and Colin Binnie. 1987. "Hearing Words and Seeing
         Colours: An Experimental Investigation of a Case of Synaesthesia." Perception; volume 16:
         761-767.
 
 

     Richard Cytowic

  Cytowic, Richard E.  2003. “The Clinician’s Paradox: Believing Those You Must Not Trust.
         Journal of Consciousness Studies; 10(9-10):157-166.
 
Cytowic, Richard E.  2004. “Synesthesia: Anomalous Binding of Qualia and Categories.” in
         Encyclopedia of Neuroscience; 3d ed, 2004.
         http://cytowic.net/Synesthesia/Synesth__Encyclo_/synesth__encyclo_.HTM
 
Cytowic, Richard E. 2002. Synaesthesia: a Union of the Senses . Second edition. New York:
         Springer-Verlag.
 
Cytowic, Richard E. 1996. "Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology ". Psyche;
         volume 2.
 
Cytowic, Richard E. 1997. "Synaesthesia: phenomenology and neuropsychology – a review of
         current knowledge." In S. Baron-Cohen and J. Harrison (Eds.); Synaesthesia: Classic
         and Contemporary Readings; Oxford, England: Blackwell. Pp. 17-39.

Cytowic, Richard E. 1993. The Man Who Tasted Shapes . New York: Putnam.

Cytowic, Richard E.  2002. ”Touching Tastes, Seeing Smells – and Shaking Up Brain Science.
         Cerebrum 4(3):7–26, 2002.
 

 

 

Sean A. Day 

 Day, Sean A. 2004. "Trends in Synesthetically Colored Graphemes and Phonemes – 2004
         revision." http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/Trends2004.htm
 
Day, Sean A. 2002. "One's Own Brain as Trickster Part II: It's For Your Own Good. " Trickster's
         Way; volume 1.1; Winter.
 
Day, Sean A. 2001. "Semi-reflection of Types of Synaesthesia." In C.W. Spinks, ed.; Trickster
         and Ambivalence: The Dance of Differentiation; Madison, WI: Atwood. Pp. 111-117.
 
Day, Sean A. (2001). "Trends in Synesthetically Colored Graphemes and Phonemes ." Iconicity in
         Language; volume 1.
 
Day, Sean A. 1996. "Synaesthesia and Synaesthetic Metaphors. " Psyche; volume 2, number 32; July.

 

 

Mike Dixon  
 
Dixon, Mike J., and Daniel Smilek. 2005. “The importance of individual differences in grapheme-
         color synesthesia.” Neuron; vol. 45; March: 821-823.
 
Dixon, Mike J., Daniel Smilek, Patricia L. Duffy, Mark P. Zanna and Philip M. Merikle.  2006. 
          "The role of meaning in grapheme-colour synaesthesia.Cortex; volume 42: 243-252.  
 
Dixon, Mike J., Daniel Smilek, and Philip Merikle. 2004.  “Not all synaesthetes are created equal: Projector versus associator
         synaesthetes.” Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience; 4(3): 335-343.
 
Smilek, Daniel, and Mike J. Dixon. 2002. “Towards a synergistic understanding of synaesthesia .”  Psyche; volume 8.
 
Smilek, D. , Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, & Philip M. Merikle. 2002.
         "Synaesthetic colour experiences influence memory ."  Psychological Science,
         volume 13: 548-552
 
Smilek, Daniel, B.A. Moffatt, J. Pasternak, B.N. White, M.J. Dixon, and P.M. Merikle. 2002.
         "Synaesthesia: a case study of discordant monozygotic twins ."  Neurocase; vol. 8:
         338-342.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001. "Digit-Colour
         Synaesthesia: An Investigation of Extraordinary Conscious Experiences."  Cosciousness
         and Cognition; volume 9(2): 39.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001.
         "Synaesthetic Photisms Influence Visual Perception ."  Journal of Cognitive
         Neuroscience; volume 13.7: 930-936.
 
Dixon, M. J., Smilek, D., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P. M. 2000. "Five plus two equals yellow ." 
         Nature; 406, 365.

 

 

Peter G. Grossenbacher
 
Grossenbacher, Peter G., and Christopher T. Lovelace. 2001. "Mechanisms of synesthesia:
         cognitive and physiological constraints."  Trends in Cognitive Sciences; volume 5:1:
         36-41.
 
Grossenbacher, Peter G. 1997. "Perception and sensory information in synesthaetic
         experience." In S. Baron-Cohen and J. Harrison (Eds.); Synaesthesia: Classic and
         Contemporary Readings; Oxford, England: Blackwell. Pp. 148-172.

 

 

Edward M. Hubbard    

Hubbard, Edward M., Sanjay Manohar, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. 2006. "Contrast affects the strength
       of synesthetic colors." Cortex; vol. 42: 184-194.
 
Hubbard, Edward M., A. Cyrus Arman, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, and Geoffrey M. Boynton. 2005.
       “Individual differences among grapheme-color synesthetes: brain-behavior correlations.”
       Neuron; vol. 45; March: 975-985.
 
Hubbard, Edward M., Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel, and Stanislas Dehaene. 2005. 
       “Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience;
       volume 6; June: 435-448.
 
Hubbard, Edward M., and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. 2005.  “Neurocognitive mecahnisms of
         Synesthesia.” Neuron; vol. 48; 3 Nov.: 509-520.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. and Edward M. Hubbard. 2003a. "Hearing colors, tasting shapes ." 
         Scientific American; 52-59.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. and Edward M. Hubbard. 2003b. "The phenomenology of synaesthesia ."
        
Journal of Consciousness Studies; volume 10(8): 49–57.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., and Edward M. Hubbard. 2001a. "Psychophysical Investigations into the
         Neural Basis of Synaesthesia. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B.; volume
         268: 979-983.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., and Edward M. Hubbard. 2001b.
         "Synaesthesia -- A window into perception, thought and language. " Journal of
         Consciousness Studies; vol. 8(12): 3-34.

 

 

Bruno Laeng  

Paulsen, Helle Gaare, and Bruno Laeng.  2006.  "Pupillometry of grapheme-color synaesthesia.
          Cortex; vol. 42: 290-294.
 
Laeng, Bruno, Frode Svartdal, and Hella Oelmann.
         "Does color synesthesia pose a paradox for early-selection theories of attention? "
         Psychological Science; volume 15.4: 277-281.

 

 


Gail Martino
 
Martino, Gail, and Larry E. Marks. 2001. "Synesthesia: Strong and weak forms." Current
         Directions in Psychological Science; volume 10.2; April: 61-65.
 
Martino, Gail, and Larry E. Marks. 1999. "Perceptual and linguistic interactions in speeded
         classification: Tests of the semantic coding hypothesis."  Perception; volume 28: 903-923.

 

 

Jason Mattingley  

Edquist, Jessica, Anina N. Rich. Cobie Brinkman and Jason B. Mattingley.  2006. 

        "Do synaesthetic colours act as unique features in visual search? Cortex; vol. 42: 222-231.

 

Mattingley, Jason B., Jonathan M. Payne, and Anina N. Rich.  2006.  "Attentional load attenuates

          synaesthetic priming effects in grapheme-color synaesthesia.Cortex; vol. 42: 213-221.

 

Ward, Jamie, and Jason B. Mattingley.  2006.  "Synaesthesia: an overview of contemporary findings and controversies.

        Cortex; vol. 42: 129-136.

 

Rich, Anina N., J.L. Bradshaw, and Jason B. Mattingley.  2005.  "A systematic, large-scale study of

          synaesthesia: implications for the role of early experience in lexical-colour associations.Cognition;

          vol. 98: 53-84.

 
Mattingley, Jason B., Anina N. Rich, Greg Yelland, and John L. Bradshaw. 2001. "Unconscious
         priming eliminates automatic binding of colour and alphanumeric form in synaesthesia."
         Nature; volume 410; 29 March: 580-582.

 

Phil Merikle   merikle

 
Dixon, Mike J., Daniel Smilek, and Philip Merikle. 2004.  “Not all synaesthetes are created equal: Projector versus associator
         synaesthetes.” Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience; 4(3): 335-343.
 
Smilek, D. , Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2002.
         "Synaesthetic colour experiences influence memory ."  Psychological Science; volume 13:
         548-552.
 
Smilek, Daniel, B.A. Moffatt, J. Pasternak, B.N. White, M.J. Dixon, and P.M. Merikle. 2002.
         "Synaesthesia: a case study of discordant monozygotic twins ."  Neurocase; vol. 8:
         338-342.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001. "Digit-Colour
         Synaesthesia: An Investigation of Extraordinary Conscious Experiences." 
         Cosciousness and Cognition; volume 9(2): 39.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001.
         "Synaesthetic Photisms Influence Visual Perception ."  Journal of Cognitive
         Neuroscience; volume 13.7: 930-936.
 
Dixon, M. J., Smilek, D., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P. M. 2000. "Five plus two equals yellow ." 
         Nature; 406, 365.

 

 

V.S. Ramachandran

Hubbard, Edward M., Sanjay Manohar, and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. 2006. "Contrast affects the strength
       of synesthetic colors." Cortex; vol. 42: 184-194.
 
Hubbard, Edward M., A. Cyrus Arman, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, and Geoffrey M. Boynton.
         2005. “Individual differences among grapheme-color synesthetes: brain-behavior
         correlations.” Neuron; vol. 45; March: 975-985.
 
Hubbard, Edward M., and Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. 2005.  “Neurocognitive mecahnisms of
         Synesthesia.” Neuron; vol. 48; 3 Nov.: 509-520.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. and Edward M. Hubbard. 2003a. "Hearing colors, tasting shapes ." 
         Scientific American; 52-59.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. and Edward M. Hubbard. 2003b. "The phenomenology of synaesthesia ."
        
Journal of Consciousness Studies; volume 10(8): 49–57.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., and Edward M. Hubbard. 2001a. "Psychophysical Investigations into the
         Neural Basis of Synaesthesia.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B.; volume
         268: 979-983.
 
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S., and Edward M. Hubbard. 2001b.
         "Synaesthesia -- A window into perception, thought and language.Journal of Consciousness
         Studies; vol. 8(12): 3-34.

 

 

Anina Rich    

Edquist, Jessica, Anina N. Rich. Cobie Brinkman and Jason B. Mattingley.  2006. 

        "Do synaesthetic colours act as unique features in visual search? Cortex; vol. 42: 222-231.

 

Rich, Anina N., J.L. Bradshaw, and Jason B. Mattingley.  2005.  "A systematic, large-scale study of

          synaesthesia: implications for the role of early experience in lexical-colour associations.Cognition;

          vol. 98: 53-84.

 
Mattingley, Jason B., Anina N. Rich, Greg Yelland, and John L. Bradshaw. 2001. "Unconscious
         priming eliminates automatic binding of colour and alphanumeric form in synaesthesia."
         Nature; volume 410; 29 March: 580-582.

 

 

Lynn Robertson  

Robertson, Lynn C.  2003.  "Binding, spatial attention and perceptual awareness.Nature Reviews
        Neuroscience; vol. 4; Feb.: 93-102.

 

 

Noam Sagiv    

Ward, Jamie, Ryan Li, Shireen Salih, and Noam Sagiv.  2007.  Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia:
         A new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differences.”  Consciousness and Cognition; vol.
         16: 913–931.
 
Ward, Jamie, and Noam Sagiv.  2007.  "Synaesthesia for finger counting and dice patterns: a case of higher synaesthesia?
        Neurocase; vol. 13.2; April: 86-93.

 

Sagiv, Noam, Jeffrey Heer, and Lynn Robertson.   2006.   "Does binding of synesthetic color to the evoking grapheme require
        attention?"  Cortex; 42: 232-242.
 
Sagiv, Noam, Julia Simner, James Collins, Brian Butterworth, and Jamie Ward.  2006.  "What is the relationship between
        synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?Cognition; 101: 114-128.

 

Sagiv, Noam, and Jamie Ward.  2006.  “Cross-modal interactions: Lessons from synesthesia.”  Progress in Brain Research,

        155, 263-275.

 

Simner, Julia, Catherine Mulvenna, Noam Sagiv, Elias Tsakanikos, Sarah A. Witherby, Christine Fraser,

        Kirsten Scott, & Jamie Ward.  2006.  "Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences.

        Perception; vol. 35: 1024-1033.     

 

 

Julia Simner     Simner

Sagiv, Noam, Julia Simner, James Collins, Brian Butterworth, and Jamie Ward.  2006.  "What is the relationship between
        synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?Cognition; 101: 114-128.
 
Simner, Julia.  2006.  "Beyond perception: synaesthesia as a psycholinguistic phenomenon.Trends
        in Cognitive Sciences; volume 11.1: 23-29.
 
Simner, Julia, Louise Glover, and Alice Mowat.  2006.  "Linguistic determinants of word colouring in grapheme-
        colour synaesthesia.Cortex; vol. 42: 281-289.
 

Simner, Julia, Catherine Mulvenna, Noam Sagiv, Elias Tsakanikos, Sarah A. Witherby, Christine Fraser,

        Kirsten Scott, & Jamie Ward.  2006.  "Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences.

        Perception; vol. 35: 1024-1033.     

 
Simner, Julia, Jamie Ward, Monika Lanz, Ashok Jansari, Krist Noonan, Louise Glover, & David A. Oakley. 
        2005.  "Non-random associations of graphemes to colours in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic populations." 
        Cognitive Neuropsychology; volume 22.8: 1069-1085. 
 
Ward, Jamie, Julia Simner, and Vivian Auyeung. 2005.  “A comparison of lexical-gustatory and
         grapheme-colour synaesthesiaCognitive Neuropsychology; vol. 22(1): 28-41.
 
Ward, Jamie, and Julia Simner. 2003.  “Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual
         factors.” Cognition; vol. 89: 237-261.
 
 

Dan Smilek

Dixon, Mike J., and Daniel Smilek. 2005. “The importance of individual differences in grapheme-
         color synesthesia.” Neuron; vol. 45; March: 821-823.
 
Dixon, Mike J., Daniel Smilek, and Philip Merikle. 2004.  “Not all synaesthetes are created equal: Projector versus associator
         synaesthetes.” Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience; 4(3): 335-343.
 
Smilek, D. , Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2002.
         “Synaesthetic colour experiences influence memory .”  Psychological Science; volume
         13: 548-552.
 
Smilek, Daniel, B.A. Moffatt, J. Pasternak, B.N. White, M.J. Dixon, and P.M. Merikle. 2002.
         "Synaesthesia: a case study of discordant monozygotic twins ."  Neurocase; vol. 8:
         338-342.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001. "Digit-Colour
         Synaesthesia: An Investigation of Extraordinary Conscious Experiences."  Cosciousness
         and Cognition; volume 9(2): 39.
 
Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. 2001.
         "Synaesthetic Photisms Influence Visual Perception ."  Journal of Cognitive
         Neuroscience; volume 13.7: 930-936.
 
Dixon, M. J., Smilek, D., Cudahy, C., & Merikle, P. M. 2000. "Five plus two equals yellow ." 
         Nature; 406, 365.

 

 

Crétien van Campen     vanCampen

 

Campen, Cretien van.  2008.  The hidden sense: synesthesia in art and science.  Cambridge,

        MA, and London: MIT Press.

 

Campen, Cretien van. 2005. Tussen zinnen. Synesthesie of hoe de zintuigen samenwerken.
       (Between Senses. Synesthesia or How the Senses Cooperate) Utrecht: Uitgeverij Zien.
 
Campen, Cretien van & Clara Froger. 2003. “Personal Profiles of Color Synesthesia: Developing a
       Testing Method for Artists and Scientists.”  Leonardo; 36:4: 291-294.
 
Campen, Cretien van & Clara Froger. 1999. “Artistic and Psychological Experiments with Synesthesia.”
       Leonardo; vol. 32, nr.1: 9-14.
 
Campen, Cretien van. 1997. "Synesthesia and artistic experimentation," Psyche vol. 3.
 

 

Jamie Ward   

Ward, Jamie, Ryan Li, Shireen Salih, and Noam Sagiv.  2007.  Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia:
         A new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differences.”  Consciousness and Cognition; vol.
         16: 913–931.
 
Ward, Jamie, and Noam Sagiv.  2007.  "Synaesthesia for finger counting and dice patterns: a case of higher synaesthesia?
        Neurocase; vol. 13.2; April: 86-93.
 
Sagiv, Noam, Julia Simner, James Collins, Brian Butterworth, and Jamie Ward.  2006.  "What is the relationship between
        synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?Cognition; 101: 114-128.

 

Simner, Julia, Catherine Mulvenna, Noam Sagiv, Elias Tsakanikos, Sarah A. Witherby, Christine Fraser,

        Kirsten Scott, & Jamie Ward.  2006.  "Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences.

        Perception; vol. 35: 1024-1033.    

 
Ward, Jamie, Brett Huckstep, and Elias Tsakanikos.  2006.  "Sound-colour synaesthesia: to what extent does it use
        cross-modal mechanisms common to us all?Cortex; vol. 42: 264-280.
 

Ward, Jamie, and Jason B. Mattingley.  2006.  "Synaesthesia: an overview of contemporary findings and controversies.

        Cortex; vol. 42: 129-136.

 

Blakemore, S.-J., D. Bristow, G. Bird, C. Frith, and Jamie Ward.  2005.  "Somatosensory activations during the

        observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia.Brain; vol. 128: 1571-1583.

 
Ward, Jamie. 2004. "Emotionally mediated synaesthesia.Cognitive Neuropsychology;
         vol. 21(7): 761-772.
 
Ward, Jamie, and Julia Simner. 2003.  “Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual
         factors.” Cognition; vol. 89: 237-261.
 
Ward, Jamie, Julia Simner, and Vivian Auyeung. 2005.  “A comparison of lexical-gustatory and
         grapheme-colour synaesthesiaCognitive Neuropsychology; vol. 22(1): 28-41.

 

 

Peter H. Weiss         Weiss

Weiss, Peter H., N. Jon Shah, Ivan Toni, Karl Zilles, and Gereon R. Fink.  2001. “Associating colours
         with people: a case of chromatic-lexical synaesthesia.”  Cortex; vol. 37: 750-753.
 
Weiss, Peter H., Karl Zilles, and Gereon R. Fink.  2005. “When visual perception causes feeling:
         enhanced crossmodal processing in grapheme-color synesthesia.”  NeuroImage; vol. 28: 859-868.
 

 

 

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