Exploring the relationship between grapheme colour-picking consistency and mental imagery.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has indicated a potential link between mental imagery and synaesthesia. However, these findings are mainly based on imagery self-report measures and recruitment of self-selected synaesthetes. To avoid issues of self-selection and demand effects, we recruited participants from the general population, rather than synaesthetes specifically, and used colour-picking consistency tests for letters and numbers to assess a 'synaesthete-like' experience. Mental imagery ability and mental rotation ability were assessed using both self-report measures and behavioural assessments. Consistency in colour-picking for letters (but not numbers) was predicted by performance on the visual mental imagery task but not by a mental rotation task or self-report measures. Using the consistency sco

SUBMITTER: Spiller MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6834015 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature