Synaesthesia has long been of interest to scientists and artists alike. In the Wider Synaesthesia Literature section we catalogue publications on synaesthesia. On this page are some of our publications.
2010
Ward, J., Jonas, C., Dienes, Z., & Seth, A. (2010). Grapheme-colour synaesthesia improves detection of embedded shapes, but without pre-attentive 'pop-out' of synaesthetic colour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277(1684), 1021-1026.
Ward, J., & Meijer, P. (2010). Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device. Consciousness and Cognition, 19(1), 492-500.
2009
Banissy, M. J., Kadosh, R. C., Maus, G. W., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2009). Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia. Experimental Brain Research, 198(2-3), 261-272.
Banissy, M. J., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2009). Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesia. Experimental Brain Research, 196(4), 565-571.
Goller, A. I., Otten, L. J., & Ward, J. (2009). Seeing sounds and hearing colors: An event-related potential study of auditory-visual synesthesia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1869-1881.
Jewanski, J., Day, S. A., & Ward, J. (2009). A colorful albino: The first documented case of synaesthesia, by Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812. Journal of the History of Neurosciences, 18, 293-303.
Meier, B., & Rothen, N. (2009). Training grapheme-colour associations produces a synaesthetic Stroop effect, but not a conditioned synaesthetic response. Neuropsychologia, 47(4), 1208-1211.
Rothen, N., & Meier, B. (2009). Do synesthetes have a general advantage in visual search and episodic memory? A case for group studies. PLoS One, 4, e5037.
2008
Simner, J., & Ward, J. (2008). Synaesthesia, color terms, and color space: Color claims came from color names in Beeli, Esslen, and Jäncke (2007). Psychological Science, 19, 412-414.
Tang, J., Ward, J., & Butterworth, B. (2008). Number forms in the brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1547-1556.
Ward, J. (2008). The Frog who Croaked Blue: Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses. London: Routledge.
Ward, J., Banissy, M. J., & Jonas, C. N. (2008). Haptic perception and synaesthesia. In M. Grunwald (Ed.), Handbook of Haptic Perception. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Ward, J., Moore, S., Thompson-Lake, D., Salih, S., & Beck, B. (2008). The aesthetic appeal of auditory-visual synaesthetic perceptions in people without synaesthesia. Perception, 37, 1285-1296.
Ward, J., Thompson-Lake, D., Ely, R., & Kaminski, F. (2008). Synaesthesia, creativity and art: What is the link? British Journal of Psychology, 99, 127-141.