Higher Prevalence of Synaesthesia in Art Students

• DOI: 10.1068/p6680
• Publication Date: 2010-06-03T13:25:21Z
• Authors: Nicolas Rothen; Beat Meier
• Keywords: Creativity; Perceptual Disorders; 03 medical and health sciences; Cognition; 0302 clinical medicine; 05 social sciences; Humans; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Students; Art; Color Perception

Synaesthesia may facilitate the expression of creativity. Therefore synaesthetes be more common in world creative art. To test this possibility, we used behavioural and phenomenological measures to assess existence grapheme-colour synaesthesia a sample art students (N = 99) control 96). We found prevalence about 7% former 2% latter. Our findings suggest that indeed students.