Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia

LI Jiayuan; ZHAO Lingli

Volume 32 Issue 2

Oct. 2014

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LI Jiayuan, ZHAO Lingli. Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2014, 32(2): 81-87.

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LI Jiayuan, ZHAO Lingli. Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2014, 32(2): 81-87.

LI Jiayuan, ZHAO Lingli. Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2014, 32(2): 81-87.

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LI Jiayuan, ZHAO Lingli. Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2014, 32(2): 81-87.

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Network of Brain Areas involved in Synaesthesia

LI Jiayuan¹,
ZHAO Lingli²

1.
School of Management, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009
2.
School of Education, South West Normal University, Chongqing 400715

Publish Date: 2014-06-20

Abstract

Abstract

In recent years, many neuropsychologists have studied synaesthesia in whole brain. From these studies we find that synaesthetic colour experience in color synaesthesia can activate V4, but is not necessarily restricted to V4. Rather it involves a network of brain areas (six brain locations activated). Similarly, in other types of synaesthesia, networks of brain areas are involved. Some evidences have showed that synaesthetes have increased grey matter or white matter in area V4 or other areas, which implies that there are structural differences of brain and genetic differences between synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Much work to look for the genes that determine synaesthesia is still going on, yet some studies have showed that genetic basis may be found in genes which influence the development of connectivity in the brain, such as TBR1. These phenomena still need to be tested in the future.
- synaesthesia,
- networks of brain areas,
- genes

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