Synaesthetic Colour in the Brain: Beyond Colour Areas. A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Synaesthetes and Matched Controls

Tessa M. van Leeuwen; Karl Magnus Petersson; Peter Hagoort

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012074

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Synaesthetic Colour in the Brain: Beyond Colour Areas. A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Synaesthetes and Matched Controls

Tessa M. van Leeuwen ,

* E-mail: t.vanleeuwen@donders.ru.nl

Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Karl Magnus Petersson,

Affiliations Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Peter Hagoort

Affiliations Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Synaesthetic Colour in the Brain: Beyond Colour Areas. A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Synaesthetes and Matched Controls

Tessa M. van Leeuwen,
Karl Magnus Petersson,
Peter Hagoort

Published: August 10, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012074

About the Authors

Tessa M. van Leeuwen

* E-mail: t.vanleeuwen@donders.ru.nl

Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Karl Magnus Petersson

Affiliations Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter Hagoort

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMvL KMP PH. Performed the experiments: TMvL. Analyzed the data: TMvL. Wrote the paper: TMvL. Provided feedback on the data and paper: KMP. Contributed extensively to discussion and interpretation of the data: PH. Edited the paper: PH.

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