期刊
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 24, 期 3, 页码 258-265出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612452573
关键词
visual perception; memory; learning; consciousness
资金
- NEI NIH HHS [K99 EY022116, R01EY019279-01A1, EY019244, R01 EY019279] Funding Source: Medline
People with color-grapheme synesthesia experience color when viewing written letters or numerals, usually with a particular color evoked by each grapheme. Here, we report on data from 11 color-grapheme synesthetes who had startlingly similar color-grapheme pairings traceable to childhood toys containing colored letters. These are the first and only data to show learned synesthesia of this kind in more than a single individual. Whereas some researchers have focused on genetic and perceptual aspects of synesthesia, our results indicate that a complete explanation of synesthesia must also incorporate a central role for learning and memory. We argue that these two positions can be reconciled by thinking of synesthesia as the automatic retrieval of highly specific mnemonic associations, in which perceptual contents are brought to mind in a manner akin to mental imagery or the perceptual-reinstatement effects found in memory studies.
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