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Synesthesia Metaphor In Semantic Processing And Visual Perception, Ai Shinohara
Synesthesia Metaphor In Semantic Processing And Visual Perception, Ai Shinohara
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
Synesthesia is a rare neurological ability whereby people can interpret one stimulus by using multiple perceptions or cognitions. Synesthesia metaphor, on the other hand, is a synesthesiac feeling which most people have toward a target stimulus. The current study was conducted to determine if there is a synesthesia metaphor between vision and semantic processing. Chinese characters were used as visual stimuli for those unfamiliar with the symbols, and the English words that served as a prompt for the task were used as cognitive or semantic stimuli in this study. Fifty-eight students recruited from the Lindenwood participant Pool (LPP) were presented …