Temporal dissociation of neural activity underlying synesthetic and perceptual colors

Lina Teichmann; Tijl Grootswagers; Denise Moerel; Thomas A. Carlson; Anina N. Rich

doi:10.1073/pnas.2020434118

Temporal dissociation of neural activity underlying synesthetic and perceptual colors

Lina Teichmann^*, Tijl Grootswagers, Denise Moerel, Thomas A. Carlson, Anina N. Rich

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Abstract

Grapheme-color synesthetes experience color when seeing achromatic symbols. We examined whether similar neural mechanisms underlie color perception and synesthetic colors using magneto-encephalography. Classification models trained on neural activity from viewing colored stimuli could distinguish synesthetic color evoked by achromatic symbols after a delay of ∼100 ms. Our results provide an objective neural signature for synesthetic experience and temporal evidence consistent with higher-level processing in synesthesia.

Original language	English
Article number	e2020434118
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	118
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020434118
Publication status	Published - 9 Feb 2021

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MEG
MVPA
color

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Temporal dissociation of neural activity underlying synesthetic and perceptual colors. / Teichmann, Lina; Grootswagers, Tijl; Moerel, Denise; Carlson, Thomas A.; Rich, Anina N.

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 6, e2020434118, 09.02.2021, p. 1-3.

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