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task, in which space is not relevant to the task, but which can hinder performance despite its irrelevance. The fact that synesthetes cannot ignore the spatial arrangement of the numbers on the screen demonstrates that numbers are automatically evoking spatial cues. The reaction times for valid cues
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studies have shown that number-form synesthetes are faster to say which of two numbers is larger when the numbers are arranged in a manner consistent with their number-form, suggesting that number forms are automatically evoked. This can be thought of as a spatial
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and involuntarily appears whenever someone who experiences number-forms thinks of numbers. Numbers are mapped into distinct spatial locations and the mapping may be different across individuals. Number forms were first documented and named by Sir
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A number form from one of Francis Galton's (1888) subjects. Note the convolutions, and how the first 12 digits correspond to a clock face. Number forms are idiosyncratic to the person experiencing them.
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are smaller than invalid cues (words and arrows), but in synesthetes the response time differences for months are larger than those of non-synesthetes.
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and stable across the person's lifespan. Although this form of synesthesia has not been as intensively studied as
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It has been suggested that number-forms are a result of cross-activation between regions of the
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Teuscher, Ursina; Brang, David; Ramachandran, Vilayanur S.; Coulson, Seana (October 2010).
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Sagiv, Noam; Simner, Julia; Collins, James; Butterworth, Brian; Ward, Jamie (August 2006).
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Hubbard, Edward M.; Piazza, Manuela; Pinel, Philippe; Dehaene, Stanislas (June 2005).
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Seron, X.; Pesenti, M.; Noël, M. P.; Deloche, G.; Cornet, J. A. (August 1992).
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This article is about the neurological phenomenon. For Unicode numbers, see
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These number forms can be distinguished from the non-conscious mental
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and P3b responses for arrow (← or →) and word (left or right) cues.
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amplitudes for month cues compared to non-synesthetes, but similar
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Piazza, M.; Pinel, P.; Dehaene, S. (1 December 2006).
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Number Forms
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mental map
numbers
automatically
Francis Galton
synesthesia
parietal lobe
numerical cognition
angular gyrus
spatial cognition
Synesthetes
P3b
N1
Reaction time
Stroop
number lines
conscious
idiosyncratic
grapheme–color synesthesia
Aphantasia
Ideasthesia
Synesthesia
The Visions of Sane Persons
"Images of numbers, or "When 98 is upper left and 6 sky blue""
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10.1016/0010-0277(92)90053-k

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