Rothen Nicolas, Meier Beat
Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Muesmattstrasse 45, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland.
Perception. 2010;39(5):718-20. doi: 10.1068/p6680.
Synaesthesia may facilitate the expression of creativity. Therefore synaesthetes may be more common in the world of creative art. To test this possibility, we used behavioural and phenomenological measures to assess the existence of grapheme-colour synaesthesia in a sample of art students (N = 99) and a control sample (N = 96). We found a prevalence of about 7% in the former and about 2% in the latter. Our findings suggest that synaesthesia may indeed be more common in art students.
联觉可能有助于创造力的表达。因此,联觉者在创意艺术领域可能更为常见。为了验证这种可能性,我们采用行为学和现象学方法,对一组艺术专业学生样本(N = 99)和一个对照样本(N = 96)进行了评估,以确定是否存在字形-颜色联觉。我们发现,前者的发生率约为7%,后者约为2%。我们的研究结果表明,联觉在艺术专业学生中可能确实更为常见。