Ward, Jamie (2019) The co-occurrence of mirror-touch with other types of synaesthesia. Perception, 48 (11). pp. 1146-1152. ISSN 0301-0066

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Abstract

People with mirror-touch synaesthesia report tactile experiences on their body when seeing other people touched. Although this has been referred to as a type of synaesthesia, it is unknown whether it co-occurs with more commonly accepted variants of synaesthesia (e.g. grapheme-colour). If it did, then this would imply a common or partly shared causal mechanism. To this end, a sample of verified grapheme-colour synaesthetes (N=80) were given a recently developed online diagnostic measure of mirror-touch. The prevalence in this group (~20%) was around 10 times higher than the general population. Moreover, performance on this measure was significantly related to the self-report of mirror-touch given, on average, three years earlier.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Mirror-touch; synaesthesia/synaesthesia; colour/color; prevalence
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Sanjeedah Choudhury
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2019 14:42
Last Modified:	25 Nov 2019 14:00
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/85887

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