title: Graphemes evoke synesthetic colors even before they are consciously recognized.
abstract: We showed a grapheme-color synesthete three different examples of stimuli in which the graphemes were 'hidden'--as in puzzle pictures--and became visible as letters only after prolonged viewing. Intriguingly the subject saw the appropriate colors accurately long before the graphemes became consciously visible--a novel form of blindsight.
authors.affiliation: Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. vramacha@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Vilayanur S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ramachandran
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Seckel
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011932:Reading