Our Tests
Our research lab has generated a large number of tests for researchers, which are described below, with the related citations. This syntoolkit has been developed by the University of Sussex, funded by the ESRC and the ERC.
In many cases our tests above can be replicated from the information provided in the citations shown (thank you for citing these papers). Other the tests above are available to be shared online for those who wish to collaborate.
1. Synaesthesia test for adults
Sequence-space synaesthesia (seeing numbers, weekdays or months in space): Ward, J., Ipser, A., Phanvanova, E., Brown, P., Bunte, I., & Simner, J. (2018). The prevalence and cognitive profile of sequence-space synaesthesia. Consciousness and cognition, 61, 79-93.
Grapheme-colour synaesthesia (coloured letters and numbers): Simner, J., Ipser, A., Smees, R., & Alvarez, J. (2017). Does synaesthesia age? Changes in the quality and consistency of synaesthetic associations. Neuropsychologia, 106, 407-416.
Compound word-colour: Mankin, J. L., Thompson, C., Branigan, H. P., & Simner, J. (2016). Processing compound words: Evidence from synaesthesia. Cognition, 150, 1-9.
Grapheme-personality synaesthesia (aka ordinal linguistic personification; letters/numbers with personality): Simner, J., Hughes, J.E.A., & Sagiv, N. (2019). Objectum sexuality: A sexual orientation linked with autism and synaesthesia. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-8: Hughes, J.E.A., Ipser, A., & Simner, J. (in prep). The MULTISENSE Online Test for Sequence-Personality Synaesthesia.
Lexical gustatory synaesthesia (tasting words): Ipser, A., Ward, J. & Simner, J. (2020) The MULTISENSE test of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: an automated online diagnostic. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 544–560.
Chinese characters-colour: Hung, W. Y., Simner, J., Shillcock, R., & Eagleman, D. M. (2014). Synaesthesia in Chinese characters: The role of radical function and position. Consciousness and cognition, 24, 38-48.
Sound-colour synaesthesia (coloured music): Ward J, Huckstep B, Tsakanikos E. (2006) Sound-colour synaesthesia: to what extent does it use cross-modal mechanisms common to us all? Cortex, 42(2):264-80; Simner J, Mulvenna C, Sagiv N, Tsakanikos E, Witherby SA, Fraser C, Scott K, Ward J. (2006) Synaesthesia: the prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences. Perception, 35(8):1024-33.
2. Synaesthesia in children
Adolescent Grapheme-colour synaesthesia (coloured letters and numbers): Smees, R., Hughes, JEA., Carmichael, DA., & Simner, J. (2019). Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society b - Biological Sciences, 374, 1787.
Children Grapheme-colour synaesthesia (coloured letters and numbers): Rinaldi, L. J., Smees, R., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J. (2020). Numeracy skills in child synaesthetes: evidence from grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Cortex, 126:141-152.
Children Grapheme-personality synaesthesia (aka ordinal linguistic personification; letters/numbers with personality): Rinaldi, L.J., Smees R., Carmichael, D.A., & Simner, J. (2020). What is the personality profile of a child synaesthete? Frontiers in Biosciences, 12 (1), 162-182.
3. Related tests (on cross-modality, or administered to synaesthetes)
Adult’s Cognitive Styles: Mealor, A.D., Simner, J., Rothen, N., Carmichael, D.A., Ward, J. (2016) Different Dimensions of Cognitive Style in Typical and Atypical Cognition: New Evidence and a New Measurement Tool. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0155483.
Children’s Well-being: Smees, R., Rinaldi, L.J. & Simner, J. (2020). Well-Being Measures for Younger Children. Psychological Assessment, 32 (2), 154-169.
Children’s Personality: Rinaldi L, Smees, R., Carmichael, D., Simner, J. (in review). Big Five Personality Instruments for Parents and Children 6+ years: The Pictorial BFI-10-c; the Definitional BFI-44-c, and the BFI-44-parent.
Children’s creative orientation: Simner, J; Smees, R., Rinaldi, L.J. and McDonald, T.J. (in prep). A novel measure of children’s inclinations towards creative activities: The Children’s Creative Orientation Test (C-COT).
Children’s Sensory Sensitivities: Smees, R., Rinaldi, L.J., Simmons, D.R., and Simner, J. (in review). Measuring Sensory Sensitivities in Children: The Parent-completed Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire (GSQ-P).
Cross modality tests for domestic dogs: Korzeniowska, A T, Root-Gutteridge, H, Simner, J and Reby, D (2019) Audio-visual crossmodal correspondences in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Biology Letters, 15 (11). pp. 1-5.