Implicit versus explicit interference effects in a number-color synesthete

TL;DR: The findings support previous research showing that time-space synaesthesia can bias visual spatial attention, and suggest that for this synaesthete, time- space associations differ depending on whether they are visually or aurally induced.

TL;DR: In this article, Aleksandra Maria Rogowska proposes that linguistic-colour synaesthesia can be considered as an abstract form of a continuous variable in the broader context of cross- and intra-modal associations.

TL;DR: It is suggested that single-case research is alive and well, and more rigorous than ever, and that current practice has been shaped considerably by Crawford and colleagues' statistical refinements over the past 12 years, however, there is scope for further tightening and standardisation of statistical methods and reporting standards.

TL;DR: Results consistently show no clear relationship between executive control functions and synesthetic behavioral effects, which raises the question of which mechanisms are at play in synesthetic 'management' during the presence of two conflicting sensations.

TL;DR: It is concluded that recent theories placing the explanatory weight on parallel processing of the irrelevant and the relevant dimensions are likely to be more sucessful than are earlier theories attempting to locate a single bottleneck in attention.

TL;DR: This paper provides a tutorial introduction to numerical cognition, with a review of essential findings and current points of debate, and proposes a triple-code model, which assumes that numbers are mentally manipulated in an arabic, verbal or analogical magnitude code depending on the requested mental operation.

TL;DR: The results suggest that expectancies about the relative utility of the information extracted during the parallel and focused phases determine which phase is used to activate responses.

TL;DR: Different subtypes of number–colour synaesthesia are identified and it is proposed that they are caused by hyperconnectivity between colour and number areas at different stages in processing; lower synaesthetes may have cross-wiring (or cross-activation) within the fusiform gyrus, whereas higher synaeste may haveCross-activation in the angular gyrus.