Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Radvansky, Gabriel A
• Gibson, Bradley S
• McNerney, M. Windy

Titel

Synesthesia and Memory: Color Congruency, von Restorff, and False Memory Effects

Ist Teil von

• Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, 2011-01, Vol.37 (1), p.219-229

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

APA PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the current study, we explored the influence of synesthesia on memory for word lists. We tested 10 grapheme-color synesthetes who reported an experience of color when reading letters or words. We replicated a previous finding that memory is compromised when synesthetic color is incongruent with perceptual color. Beyond this, we found that, although their memory for word lists was superior overall, synesthetes did not exhibit typical color- or semantic-defined von Restorff isolation effects ( von Restorff, 1933 ) compared with control participants. Moreover, our synesthetes exhibited a reduced Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory effect ( Deese, 1959 ; Roediger & McDermott, 1995 ). Taken as a whole, these findings are consistent with the idea that color-grapheme synesthesia can lead people to place a greater emphasis on item-specific processing and surface form characteristics of words in a list (e.g., the letters that make them up) relative to relational processing and more meaning-based processes.