Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1200-1216 , November 2009

What information is critical to elicit interference in number-form synaesthesia?

  • Edward M. Hubbard

      Affiliations

    • INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA/SAC/DSV/I2BM/NeuroSpin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College #552, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA.
    • ,
  • Mariagrazia Ranzini

      Affiliations

    • INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA/SAC/DSV/I2BM/NeuroSpin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
    • Department of Psychology, University of Pavia, Italy
    • ,
  • Manuela Piazza

      Affiliations

    • INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA/SAC/DSV/I2BM/NeuroSpin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
    • Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy
    • ,
  • Stanislas Dehaene

      Affiliations

    • INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA/SAC/DSV/I2BM/NeuroSpin, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
    • Collège de France, Paris, France

Received 4 July 2008 ,Revised 22 May 2009 ,Accepted 11 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.011

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