Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1217-1228 , November 2009

A different outlook on time: Visual and auditory month names elicit different mental vantage points for a time-space synaesthete

  • 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., Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
    • ,
  • Mark T. Stewart

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Willamette University, Oregon, USA
    • ,
  • Emily C. Maxwell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Willamette University, Oregon, USA
    • ,
  • Daniel Smilek

      Affiliations

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

Received 9 July 2008 ,Revised 27 January 2009 ,Accepted 26 May 2009.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00210-X

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.05.014

Cortex
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