Higher Prevalence of Synaesthesia in Art Students

Nicolas Rothen · Beat Meier

81 citations0/0 files storedPerception

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Multisensory perception and integration Creativity in Education and Neuroscience Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

Abstract

Synaesthesia may facilitate the expression of creativity. Therefore synaesthetes may be more common in the world of creative art. To test this possibility, we used behavioural and phenomenological measures to assess the existence of grapheme-colour synaesthesia in a sample of art students (N = 99) and a control sample (N = 96). We found a prevalence of about 7% in the former and about 2% in the latter. Our findings suggest that synaesthesia may indeed be more common in art students.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 81 citations exist upstream.

References

2006Synaesthesia: The Prevalence of Atypical Cross-Modal Experiences 1967Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited 2005A systematic, large-scale study of synaesthesia: implications for the role of early experience in lexical-colour associations 1993Coloured Speech Perception: Is Synaesthesia what Happens when Modularity Breaks Down?2002Synesthesia 2007Synaesthesia, creativity and art: What is the link?2008Early detection of markers for synaesthesia in childhood populations 2003Dissociating semantic and perceptual components of synaesthesia: behavioural and functional neuroanatomical investigations

Cited by

2016Personality and cognitive profiles of a general synesthetic trait 2014Semantic mechanisms may be responsible for developing synesthesia 2013Serotonergic Hyperactivity as a Potential Factor in Developmental, Acquired and Drug-Induced Synesthesia 2011Superior Encoding Enhances Recall in Color-Graphemic Synesthesia 2014Acquiring synaesthesia: insights from training studies

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.