Reduced perceptual narrowing in synesthesia.


Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
Titre abrégé: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7505876

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 05 2020
Historique:
pubmed: 24 4 2020
medline: 29 7 2020
entrez: 24 4 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Synesthesia is a neurologic trait in which specific inducers, such as sounds, automatically elicit additional idiosyncratic percepts, such as color (thus "colored hearing"). One explanation for this trait-and the one tested here-is that synesthesia results from unusually weak pruning of cortical synaptic hyperconnectivity during early perceptual development. We tested the prediction from this hypothesis that synesthetes would be superior at making discriminations from nonnative categories that are normally weakened by experience-dependent pruning during a critical period early in development-namely, discrimination among nonnative phonemes (Hindi retroflex /d̪a/ and dental /ɖa/), among chimpanzee faces, and among inverted human faces. Like the superiority of 6-mo-old infants over older infants, the synesthetic groups were significantly better than control groups at making all the nonnative discriminations across five samples and three testing sites. The consistent superiority of the synesthetic groups in making discriminations that are normally eliminated during infancy suggests that residual cortical connectivity in synesthesia supports changes in perception that extend beyond the specific synesthetic percepts, consistent with the incomplete pruning hypothesis.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32321833
pii: 1914668117
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914668117
pmc: PMC7211996
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

10089-10096

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no competing interest.

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Auteurs

Daphne Maurer (D)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1; maurer@mcmaster.ca.

Julian K Ghloum (JK)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.

Laura C Gibson (LC)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1.

Marcus R Watson (MR)

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.

Lawrence M Chen (LM)

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.

Kathleen Akins (K)

Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6.

James T Enns (JT)

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.

Takao K Hensch (TK)

Center for Brain Science, Department of Molecular Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1M1.
International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033.

Janet F Werker (JF)

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1M1.

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