Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1190-1199 , November 2009

The ups and downs (and lefts and rights) of synaesthetic number forms: Validation from spatial cueing and SNARC-type tasks

  • Michelle Jarick

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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  • Mike J. Dixon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
    • ,
  • Emily C. Maxwell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Willamette University, OR, USA
    • ,
  • Michael E.R. Nicholls

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Daniel Smilek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Received 1 July 2008 ,Revised 28 March 2009 ,Accepted 5 April 2009.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00209-3

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.015

Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1190-1199 , November 2009

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