期刊
COGNITION
卷 177, 期 -, 页码 107-121出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.03.022
关键词
Synaesthesia; Colour; Binocular rivalry; Priming; Attention; Consciousness
资金
- Australian NHMRC project [APP1024800, APP1046198]
- ARC [DP140101560]
- Career Development Fellowship [APP1049596]
- Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship - Wellcome Trust [201381/Z/16/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [201381/Z/16/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Individuals with grapheme-colour synaesthesia experience anomalous colours when reading achromatic text. These unusual experiences have been said to resemble 'normal' colour perception or colour imagery, but studying the nature of synaesthesia remains difficult. In the present study, we report novel evidence that synaesthetic colour impacts conscious vision in a way that is different from both colour perception and imagery. Presenting 'normal' colour prior to binocular rivalry induces a location-dependent suppressive bias reflecting local habituation. By contrast, a grapheme that evokes synaesthetic colour induces a facilitatory bias reflecting priming that is not constrained to the inducing grapheme's location. This priming does not occur in non-synaesthetes and does not result from response bias. It is sensitive to diversion of visual attention away from the grapheme, but resistant to sensory perturbation, reflecting a reliance on cognitive rather than sensory mechanisms. Whereas colour imagery in non-synaesthetes causes local priming that relies on the locus of imagined colour, imagery in synaesthetes caused global priming not dependent on the locus of imagery. These data suggest a unique psychophysical profile of high-level colour processing in synaesthetes. Our novel findings and method will be critical to testing theories of synaesthesia and visual awareness.
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