Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters

Olympia Colizoli; Jaap M. J. Murre; Romke Rouw

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039799

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Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters

Olympia Colizoli ,

* E-mail: o.colizoli@uva.nl

Affiliation Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Jaap M. J. Murre,

Affiliation Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Romke Rouw

Affiliation Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters

Olympia Colizoli,
Jaap M. J. Murre,
Romke Rouw

Published: June 27, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039799

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Can you teach yourself synesthesia? See for yourself

Posted by MattJHodgkinson on 09 Jul 2012 at 09:59 GMT

The author Jaap Murre discusses the findings of this paper on his website at http://murre.tk/can-you-t....

He has made a Javascript bookmarklet available on that page that reproduces the experiment by turning letters on a website into different colours: drag the link "Color Letters" on the top right of the page into your bookmark links and click to see how it works.

Competing interests declared: I am an Associate Editor for PLoS ONE

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