TY - GEN
T1 - Link between color-space association, left-right confusion, mirror image copy, and autistic traits
AU - Ikeda, Hanako
AU - Wada, Makoto
AU - Watanabe, Katsumi
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This research was jointly supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST: JPMJCR14E4), MEXT’s Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (17H00753) both awarded to KW. We would like to thank Dr. Miho Kitamura and Dr, Aiko Murata for their help.
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© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/8/6
Y1 - 2018/8/6
N2 - It has been suggested that the association between multiple sensory modalities can occur among non-synesthetic people. In a previous study [1], we showed that non-synesthetes exhibited an association between spatial direction and color. In the present study, we explored the factors that influence the degree of association between spatial direction and color. Specifically, we focused on the association between the degree of color-direction association and cognitive processes related to discriminating spatial direction. One-hundred ninety-nine Japanese university students completed questionnaires on color-direction association, left-right confusion, mirror image imitation, and autistic traits. People who showed stronger color- direction association found it easier to discriminate left from right and to imitate others' actions as mirrored images. In addition, people with higher autistic traits experienced a greater degree of left-right confusion and greater difficulty imitating others' mirrored images.
AB - It has been suggested that the association between multiple sensory modalities can occur among non-synesthetic people. In a previous study [1], we showed that non-synesthetes exhibited an association between spatial direction and color. In the present study, we explored the factors that influence the degree of association between spatial direction and color. Specifically, we focused on the association between the degree of color-direction association and cognitive processes related to discriminating spatial direction. One-hundred ninety-nine Japanese university students completed questionnaires on color-direction association, left-right confusion, mirror image imitation, and autistic traits. People who showed stronger color- direction association found it easier to discriminate left from right and to imitate others' actions as mirrored images. In addition, people with higher autistic traits experienced a greater degree of left-right confusion and greater difficulty imitating others' mirrored images.
KW - autistic traits
KW - color-direction association
KW - left-right confusion
KW - mirror image imitation
KW - non-synesthesic
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U2 - 10.1109/KST.2018.8426194
DO - 10.1109/KST.2018.8426194
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052296644
SN - 9781538640159
T3 - 2018 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology: Cybernetics in the Next Decades, KST 2018
SP - 268
EP - 271
BT - 2018 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology, KST 2018
Y2 - 31 January 2018 through 3 February 2018
ER -