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Understanding oral spelling: a review and synthesisJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Neurocase 9:1-14. 2003..Other discrepancies between written and oral spelling are reviewed and accommodated within this model, and the model is extended to include recognition of oral spellings and transcoding between spoken and written letter forms...- Synaesthesia: the taste of words on the tip of the tongueJulia Simner
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
Nature 444:438. 2006 - Mirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathyMichael J Banissy
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H OAP, UK
Nat Neurosci 10:815-6. 2007..This is consistent with the notion that we empathize with others through a process of simulation... 
Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesiaMichael J Banissy
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Exp Brain Res 198:261-72. 2009..Finally, we propose a neurocognitive model to account for these characteristics and discuss the implications of our findings for general theories of synaesthesia...- Understanding grapheme personification: a social synaesthesia?Maina Amin
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University, London, UK
J Neuropsychol 5:255-82. 2011..This benign form of hyper-mentalizing may provide a unique point of view on one of the most central problems in human cognition - understanding others' state of mind... - The role of semantics in reading and spelling: evidence for the 'summation hypothesis'J Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK
Neuropsychologia 38:1643-53. 2000..These results are broadly consistent with the 'summation hypothesis' [27] and suggest that normal reading and spelling may take place by integrating both semantic information and knowledge of direct orthography-phonology correspondences... - Synaesthesia, creativity and art: what is the link?Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Br J Psychol 99:127-41. 2008.... - Sound-colour synaesthesia: to what extent does it use cross-modal mechanisms common to us all?Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Cortex 42:264-80. 2006.... - Synaesthesia: an overview of contemporary findings and controversiesJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Cortex 42:129-36. 2006..The contributions reflect the work of more than 60 investigators from nine different countries. We are confident that the papers presented in this Special Issue will set the agenda for synaesthesia research for many years to come... - Synaesthesia for reading and playing musical notesJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Neurocase 12:27-34. 2006..g., 'A' may be "red" both as a letter and when written in musical notation). The results suggest that synaesthetic associations may migrate from one representational format (e.g., graphemes) to another (e.g., musical notation)... - Synaesthesia for finger counting and dice patterns: a case of higher synaesthesia?Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Neurocase 13:86-93. 2007..This suggests a close bi-directional coupling between numerosity and colour. Together, these findings constrain theories concerning the neural basis of synaesthesia... - Is synaesthesia an X-linked dominant trait with lethality in males?Jamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Perception 34:611-23. 2005..7: 1). Finally, we discuss how the genotype may give rise to the phenotype in terms of changes in synaptogenesis or plasticity extending into childhood, to be subsequently shaped by the environment... - Encoding and the frontal lobes: a dissociation between retrograde and anterograde memoriesJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Cortex 39:791-812. 2003.... - Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual factorsJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Cognition 89:237-61. 2003..The results suggest that synaesthesia does not simply reflect innate connections from one perceptual system to another, but that it can be mediated and/or influenced by a symbolic/conceptual level of representation... - Inappropriate association of semantics and context to novel stimuli can give rise to the false recognition of unfamiliar peopleJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Neuropsychologia 41:538-49. 2003..These findings underscore the importance of viewing memory as an attributional process, whereby current mental constructions/processes are attributed to some event(s) in the past... - Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesiaMichael J Banissy
Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
Exp Brain Res 196:565-71. 2009..These findings suggest the possibility that a hyper-sensitive concurrent perceptual system is a general property of synaesthesia and are discussed in relation to theories of the condition... - The aesthetic appeal of auditory-visual synaesthetic perceptions in people without synaesthesiaJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Perception 37:1285-96. 2008..The results suggest that non-arbitrary AV mappings, present in the experiences of synaesthetes, can be readily appreciated by others and may underpin our tendency to engage with certain forms of art... - Suppressing sensorimotor activity modulates the discrimination of auditory emotions but not speaker identityMichael J Banissy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 30:13552-7. 2010..These findings suggest that sensorimotor activity may be a modality-independent mechanism which aids emotion discrimination... - Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution deviceJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Conscious Cogn 19:492-500. 2010..Once established, the sensory substitution mapping between the auditory and visual domains is not confined to when the device is worn and, thus, may constitute an example of acquired synaesthesia... - The impact of visuo-spatial number forms on simple arithmeticJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Cortex 45:1261-5. 2009..If people with number forms rely more heavily on visual-spatial strategies than verbal ones then we hypothesised that multiplication may be disproportionately affected by this strategy relative to subtraction, and this was found... - Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia: a new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differencesJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WCIE 6BT, UK
Conscious Cogn 16:913-31. 2007..In doing so, we attempt to bring the synaesthesia literature closer to current models of non-synaesthetic perception, attention and binding... - Number forms in the brainJoey Tang
University College London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1547-56. 2008..This article provides an important extension beyond previous studies that have focused on word-color or grapheme-color synesthesia... - The neuropsychological impact of insular cortex lesionsCatherine L Jones
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 81:611-8. 2010..This comprehensive review is intended to inform existing neuropsychological models of insula function in order to guide future research... - Disruption of synaesthesia following TMS of the right posterior parietal cortexNeil Muggleton
Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Neuropsychologia 45:1582-5. 2007..This region may be important for binding graphemes and colours to different spatial reference frames... - What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?Noam Sagiv
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Cognition 101:114-28. 2006..Finally, we also describe some consequences of number forms for performance in a number comparison task... - Crossmodal interactions: lessons from synesthesiaNoam Sagiv
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Prog Brain Res 155:259-71. 2006.... - Superior facial expression, but not identity recognition, in mirror-touch synesthesiaMichael J Banissy
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 31:1820-4. 2011..These findings imply a role for sensorimotor simulation processes in the recognition of facial affect, but not facial identity... - Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesiaS J Blakemore
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Brain 128:1571-83. 2005..The results suggest that, in C, the mirror system for touch is overactive, above the threshold for conscious tactile perception... 
Identification of the exported proteins of the oral opportunistic pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans by using alkaline phosphatase fusionsJ Ward
Molecular Microbiology Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT
Infect Immun 69:2748-52. 2001..The proteins encoded by these genes may, by virtue of their presence on the cell surface, be novel virulence determinants...- Searching for Shereshevskii: what is superior about the memory of synaesthetes?Caroline Yaro
University College London, London, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 60:681-95. 2007..Furthermore, this may account for the fact that synaesthetic associations, once formed, remain highly consistent... - Grapheme-colour synaesthesia improves detection of embedded shapes, but without pre-attentive 'pop-out' of synaesthetic colourJamie Ward
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK
Proc Biol Sci 277:1021-6. 2010..This is more consistent with theories of synaesthesia in which spatial attention needs to be deployed to graphemes for conscious colour experiences to emerge than the interpretation based on 'pop-out'... - Placing events in time: the role of autobiographical recollectionAlex Fradera
University College London, UK
Memory 14:834-45. 2006..It was found that the ability to place an event in autobiographical context is related to dating accuracy, but not to other aspects of memory... - Do errors matter? Errorless and errorful learning in anomic picture namingStephen McKissock
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Neuropsychol Rehabil 17:355-73. 2007..The results also question the widely held assumption that it is beneficial for a patient to attempt to retrieve a word, given that our errorless condition involved no retrieval effort and had the greatest benefits... - Formal lexical paragraphias in a single case study: how "masterpiece" can become "misterpieman" and "curiosity" "suretoy"Cristina Romani
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Brain Lang 83:300-34. 2002..One possible cause of the confusions is lack of proper inhibition among lexical competitors... - Synaesthesia: the prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiencesJulia Simner
Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Perception 35:1024-33. 2006..Hence, we suggest that female biases reported earlier likely arose from (or were exaggerated by) sex differences in self-disclosure... - Acquired auditory-tactile synesthesiaJamie Ward
Ann Neurol 62:429-30. 2007 - DNA tests in prolific sheep from eight countries provide new evidence on origin of the Booroola (FecB) mutationGeorge H Davis
Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, New Zealand
Biol Reprod 66:1869-74. 2002..The DNA mutation test for FecB will enable breeding plans to be developed that allow the most effective use of this gene in Garole and Javanese Thin-tailed sheep and their crosses... - Synaesthesia, color terms, and color space: color claims came from color names in Beeli, Esslen, and Jäncke (2007)Julia Simner
Psychology, PPLS, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Psychol Sci 19:412-4. 2008