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Defining synaesthesia: A response to two excellent commentaries.
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PMID:  22229771     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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This paper is an author response to two commentaries on 'Defining Synaesthesia' (Simner, 2012) by David M. Eagleman ('Synesthesia in its protean guises', 2012), and Roi Cohen Kadosh and Devin B. Terhune ('Redefining synaesthesia?', 2012). Together with these authors, I seek to more closely examine existing criteria on which definitions of synaesthesia have been based. In particular, I focus on the fact (a) that existing definitions paint synaesthesia as an overly homogenous condition, (b) synaesthesia may have multiple neurological causes, and (c) synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes may lie on a continuum.
Authors:
Julia Simner
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2011-07-28
Journal Detail:
Title:  British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953)     Volume:  103     ISSN:  0007-1269     ISO Abbreviation:  Br J Psychol     Publication Date:  2012 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-01-10     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0373124     Medline TA:  Br J Psychol     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  24-7     Citation Subset:  IM    
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©2011 The British Psychological Society.
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
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