TY - JOUR AU - Jäncke, Lutz AU - Rogenmoser, Lars AU - Meyer, Martin AU - Elmer, Stefan PY - 2012 DA - 2012/12/14 TI - Pre-attentive modulation of brain responses to tones in coloured-hearing synesthetes JO - BMC Neuroscience SP - 151 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Coloured-hearing (CH) synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which an acoustic stimulus (the inducer) initiates a concurrent colour perception (the concurrent). Individuals with CH synesthesia "see" colours when hearing tones, words, or music; this specific phenomenon suggesting a close relationship between auditory and visual representations. To date, it is still unknown whether the perception of colours is associated with a modulation of brain functions in the inducing brain area, namely in the auditory-related cortex and associated brain areas. In addition, there is an on-going debate as to whether attention to the inducer is necessarily required for eliciting a visual concurrent, or whether the latter can emerge in a pre-attentive fashion. SN - 1471-2202 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-13-151 DO - 10.1186/1471-2202-13-151 ID - Jäncke2012 ER -