grapheme-color

adjective

Relating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".

Meanings

adjectivegrapheme-color (not comparable)

alternative grapheme-colour · alternative grapheme color · alternative grapheme colour

  1. not comparableRelating to the perception of colors caused by the sensing of graphemes. Often modifies the term "synesthesia" or "synesthete".

    In this chapter, we explore how grapheme-color synesthesia might be expressed in second languages.

    2018, Edward M. Hubbard, Julia Simner, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165, →ISBN
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    Almost as frequent as grapheme-color synesthesia is the type of crosssensory perception in which sounds are perceived as colored (sound-color synesthesia or colored hearing).

    2013, Dani Cavallaro, Synesthesia and the Arts, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 8, →ISBN

    Hence, grapheme-colour synaesthetes could often experience a negative emotional response and anger if they read a text with the 'wrong colours' on billboards, on television, or in books.

    2015, Aleksandra Maria Rogowska, Synaesthesia and Individual Differences, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 133, →ISBN

    Grapheme-color synesthesia wasn't a skill or talent, no matter how much she wished it was at times.

    2015, Colby Marshall, Double Vision, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 76, →ISBN

    There were eight participants […] whose number of grapheme-colour pairings differed between the rounds.

    2019, Jan Chromý with Marianna Borůvková, Lucie Malá, and Tereza Sudzinová, “Long-term versus short-term consistency in the grapheme-colour synaesthesia: Grapheme-colour pairings can change in adulthood”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, volume 81, page 1810

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