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Weiss, Franziska ; Greenlee, Mark W. ; Volberg, Gregor

No atypical white-matter structures in grapheme- or color-sensitive areas in synesthetes

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Weiss, Franziska, Greenlee, Mark W. and Volberg, Gregor (2019) No atypical white-matter structures in grapheme- or color-sensitive areas in synesthetes. biorxiv.

DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.41145


Abstract

Grapheme-color synesthetes experience colors when presented with written language characters. In this study diffusion-weighted imaging was used to investigate white matter alterations in color-and grapheme-processing brain areas in synesthetes as a possible factor for the color sensations. Regions of interest were defined by means of neuroanatomical atlantes, functional localizer tasks and ...

Grapheme-color synesthetes experience colors when presented with written language characters. In this study diffusion-weighted imaging was used to investigate white matter alterations in color-and grapheme-processing brain areas in synesthetes as a possible factor for the color sensations. Regions of interest were defined by means of neuroanatomical atlantes, functional localizer tasks and retinotopic mapping. None of the regions showed differences in white matter structure between synesthetes and a control population, as revealed by fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity measures. Quite the contrary, the data broadly supported the null hypothesis of no group differences in white matter microstructure. This finding is in line with recent studies suggesting no atypical neuroanatomy in grapheme-color synesthetes.,



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication Titlebiorxiv
Title of Book:No atypical white-matter structures in grapheme- or color-sensitive areas in synesthetes
Date2019
Date of publication16 Dec 2019 08:28
InstitutionsHuman Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee
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ValueType
10.1101/618611DOI
Keywordssynesthesia, grapheme, cross-activation theory, DTI
Dewey Decimal Classification100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology
StatusPublished
RefereedNo, this version has not been refereed yet (as with preprints)
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-411455
Item ID41145

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