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SUBMITTER: Spiller MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6834015 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spiller Mary Jane MJ Harkry Lee L McCullagh Fintan F Thoma Volker V Jonas Clare C
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20191021 1787
Previous research has indicated a potential link between mental imagery and synaesthesia. However, these findings are mainly based on imagery self-report measures and recruitment of self-selected synaesthetes. To avoid issues of self-selection and demand effects, we recruited participants from the general population, rather than synaesthetes specifically, and used colour-picking consistency tests for letters and numbers to assess a 'synaesthete-like' experience. Mental imagery ability and mental ...[more]