Dr. R. (Romke) Rouw
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Brain and Cognition
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
- Room number: 0.06
Postal address
- Postbus 15915
1001 NK Amsterdam
Contact details
- Profiel
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Synesthesia
SYNESTHESIA - Publications
PA-QUESTIONNAIRE
Our questionnaire to differentiate projector and associator synesthetes wastranslated from Dutch into English. If you are interested in using this questionnaire, please click "PA Questionnaire (English)".
PA Questionnaire - other languages
For PA questionnaire in Dutch (original), see "PA Questionnaire (Dutch)" link below.
The questionnaire was translated into German by Beat Meier and Nicolas Rothen . See "PA Questionnaire (German)"
The questionnaire was translated into Polish by Urszula Mihułowicz . See "PA Questionnaire (Polish)"
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Publications
2021
Root, N. B., & Rouw, R. (2021). A Unifying Model of Grapheme-Color Associations in Synesthetes and Controls. In 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021): Comparative Cognition Animal Minds : Vienna, Austria, 26-29 July 2021 (Vol. 3, pp. 1663-1669). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 43). Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79n051sq [details]- Root, N., Asano, M., Melero, H., Kim, C-Y., Sidoroff-Dorso, A. V., Vatakis, A., Yokosawa, K., Ramachandran, V., & Rouw, R. (2021). Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages. Consciousness and Cognition, 95, [103192]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103192 [details]
2019
- Root, N. B., Dobkins, K., Ramachandran, V. S., & Rouw, R. (2019). Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 374(1787), [20180572]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0572 [details]
- Rouw, R., & Root, N. B. (2019). Distinct colours in the ‘synaesthetic colour palette’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 374(1787), [20190028]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0028 [details]
- Tilot, A. K., Vino, A., Kucera, K. S., Carmichael, D. A., van den Heuvel, L., den Hoed, J., Sidoroff-Dorso, A. V., Campbell, A., Porteous, D. J., St Pourcain, B., van Leeuwen, T. M., Ward, J., Rouw, R., Simner, J., & Fisher, S. E. (2019). Investigating genetic links between grapheme–colour synaesthesia and neuropsychiatric traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 374(1787), 20190026. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0026 [details]
2018
- Brout, J. J., Edelstein, M., Erfanian, M., Mannino, M., Miller, L. J., Rouw, R., ... Rosenthal, M. Z. (2018). Investigating Misophonia: A Review of the Empirical Literature, Clinical Implications, and a Research Agenda. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, [36]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00036 [details]
- Root, N. B., Rouw, R., Asano, M., Kim, C-Y., Melero, H., Yokosawa, K., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2018). Why is the synesthete's “A” red? Using a five-language dataset to disentangle the effects of shape, sound, semantics, and ordinality on inducer–concurrent relationships in grapheme-color synesthesia. Cortex, 99, 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.003 [details]
- Rouw, R., & Erfanian, M. (2018). A large-scale study of misophonia. Journal of clinical psychology, 74(3), 453-479. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22500 [details]
2017
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., Scholte, H. S., & Rouw, R. (2017). Creating colored letters: Familial markers of grapheme–color synesthesia in parietal lobe activation and structure. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(7), 1239-1252. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01105 [details]
2016
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., Scholte, H. S., van Es, D. M., Knapen, T., & Rouw, R. (2016). Visual cortex activity predicts subjective experience after reading books with colored letters. Neuropsychologia, 88, 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.006 [details]
- Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2016). Personality and cognitive profiles of a general synesthetic trait. Neuropsychologia, 88, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.006 [details]
2015
- Cohen, M. X., Weidacker, K. S., Tankink, J., Scholte, H. S., & Rouw, R. (2015). Grapheme-color synesthesia subtypes: stable individual differences reflected in posterior alpha-band oscillations. Cognitive Neuroscience, 6(2-3), 56-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1017450 [details]
- Janssen, S. M. J., Kristo, G., Rouw, R., & Murre, J. M. J. (2015). The relation between verbal and visuospatial memory and autobiographical memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 31, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.10.001 [details]
2014
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2014). Defining (trained) grapheme-color synesthesia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, [368]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00368 [details]
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2014). Training synesthetic letter-color associations by reading in color. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 84, e50893. [e50893]. https://doi.org/10.3791/50893 [details]
- Rouw, R., & Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2014). The most intriguing question in synesthesia research. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(2), 128-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2014.906400 [details]
- Rouw, R., Case, L., Gosavi, R., & Ramachandran, V. (2014). Color associations for days and letters across different languages. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, [369]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00369 [details]
2013
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2013). A taste for words and sounds: a case of lexical-gustatory and sound-gustatory synesthesia. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, [775]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00775 [details]
- Edelstein, M., Brang, D., Rouw, R., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2013). Misophonia: physiological investigations and case descriptions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, [296]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00296 [details]
- Murre, J. M. J., Janssen, S. M. J., Rouw, R., & Meeter, M. (2013). The rise and fall of immediate and delayed memory for verbal and visuospatial information from late childhood to late adulthood. Acta Psychologica, 142(1), 96-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.10.005 [details]
- Rouw, R. (2013). Synesthesia, hyperconnectivity, and diffusion tensor imaging. In J. Simner, & E. M. Hubbard (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of synesthesia (pp. 500-518). (Oxford library of psychology). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [details]
- Rouw, R., van Driel, J., Knip, K., & Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2013). Executive functions in synesthesia. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(1), 184-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.008 [details]
2012
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2012). Pseudo-synesthesia through reading books with colored letters. PLoS ONE, 7(6), [e39799]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039799 [details]
2011
- Brang, D., Rouw, R., Ramachandran, V. S., & Coulson, S. (2011). Similarly shaped letters evoke similar colors in grapheme-color synesthesia. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1355-1358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.002 [details]
- Rouw, R. (2011). 'Special cases'; neural mechanisms and individual differences in synaesthesia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 5(2), 145-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02017.x [details]
- Rouw, R., Scholte, H. S., & Colizoli, O. (2011). Brain areas involved in synaesthesia: a review. Journal of Neuropsychology, 5(2), 214-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02006.x [details]
2010
- Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2010). Neural basis of individual differences in synesthetic experiences. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(18), 6205-6213. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3444-09.2010 [details]
2014
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2014). Sinestesia, se puede aprender a escuchar en colores?. Web publication/site, BBC Mundo. Retrieved from http://www.noticias24.com/salud/noticia/23321/bbc-mundo-sinestesia-se-puede-aprender-a-escuchar-en-colores/
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2014). Why Are You a Picky Eater? Blame Genes, Brains and Breast Milk. Web publication/site, Smithsonian. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-are-you-picky-eater-blame-genes-brains-and-breast-milk-180953456/?no-ist
2013
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2013). Pavlov haalt wetenschappelijk tijdschrift. Web publication/site, NPO Wetenschap. Retrieved from http://npowetenschap.nl/site/artikel/Pavlov-haalt-wetenschappelijk-tijdschrift/6435
2012
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2012). Can you learn to be synaesthetic?. Web publication/site, Discover Magazine, Neuroskeptic Blog. Retrieved from http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2012/07/06/can-you-learn-to-be-synaesthetic/#.Voq6nZMrIko
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2012). Teach yourself to be synesthetic: hear colors, see sounds. Web publication/site, Smithsonian. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/teach-yourself-to-be-synesthetic-hear-colors-see-sounds-1735587/?no-ist
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2012). Can Synesthesia Be Learned? The Wall Street Journal.
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2012). Can You Teach Yourself Synesthesia? The Atlantic.
- Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M. J., & Rouw, R. (2012). Teach yourself to see the letter 'k' in purple. MSNBC's The Body Odd.
2010
- Colizoli, O. (Author), Murre, J. M. J. (Author), & Rouw, R. (Author). (2010). Synesthesie is te leren. Web publication/site, Scientias. Retrieved from http://www.scientias.nl/synesthesie-is-te-leren/
2017
- Korsmit, I., & Rouw, R. (2017). "If you eat that apple I might have to kill you"; A disproportionately negative response to particular sounds. Poster session presented at NVP Winterconferentie, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands.
2015
- Erfanian, M., & Rouw, R. (2015). Emotional and cognitive characteristics of Misophonia. Poster session presented at Winterconference NVP 2015, .
Award
- Rouw, R. (2019). Neurological basis of Misophonia.
- Rouw, R., Zuidema, W. & Ridderinkhof, R. (2019). Letter-color correspondences in synesthetes and non-synesthetes across languages..
- Rouw, R. (2016). Congo Teaching Award (Nomination).
- Rouw, R. (2016). "Cold Chills versus Hot Rage: extreme emotional responses to particular sounds".
- Rouw, R. (2016). Research Proposal & Motivation letter.
- Rouw, R. & Ridderinkhof, K. R. (2014). "From Sensation to Control: Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Synesthetic Experience".
- Rouw, R. & Scholte, S. (2010). "Faculty of 1000 Medicine".
Membership
- Rouw, R. (2019-2023). The REAM Foundation is a private family foundation, which began making grants in 2007.The REAM Foundation, working with the Milken Institute Center (…), REAM Foundation, USA. http://reamfoundation.org/
- Rouw, R. (2018-2020). IASAS: International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists.
- Rouw, R. (2017-2020). IASAS is an international organisation advancing awareness of synaesthesia and encouraging international collaboration through support for academic, (…), IASAS: International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists.
- Rouw, R. (2017-2022). Science Director of IASAS: International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists. IASAS is an international organisation advancing (…), IASAS.
Talk / presentation
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (17-10-2019). Synesthetic vs Non-Synesthetic Color Associations, IASAS EVENT 2019.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (23-10-2018). Bridging the Senses, Royal Society's Theo Murphy Scientific Meeting program. Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall, UK.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (7-2018). Current perspectives on Misophonia, Strategic Philanthropy Misophonia Retreat, Chicago.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (4-4-2018). Now you see it now you don’t:, Now you see it now you don’t: , Amsterdam.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (28-9-2017). Unusual Experiences; Meesterlijke ontmoeting, Vereniging ons Middelbaar Onderwijs. Strijp-S, Eindhoven.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (4-7-2017). Je ziet niet wat je ziet, Persbijeenkomst Hallmark, organised by Omnicom Public Relations Group, Amsterdam.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (29-6-2017). What's it like to be a synesthete Keynote in "Inspirational Bites"?, CMFG lead Horizontal programs HealthTech, Philips Design, Amsterdam.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (11-12-2016). Wat zie je als je blind bent, UvA/Nemo.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) & Krugers, H. J. (speaker) (21-11-2016). Zie je wat je ziet?, Congrescentrum Corpus.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (10-9-2016). How you get what you see, International school hilversum.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (6-2016). A case study of skill development and changes in phemomenology of blind users of a sensory substiution device?, International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF).
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (6-2016). Individual Differences in Sensations.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (16-4-2016). What's it like to be a Synesthete, Trinity College Dublin.
- Rouw, R. (invited speaker) (28-2-2014). Neural basis of synaesthesia; are we all synaesthetes? Synaesthesia in Perspective: development Networks, and Multisensory Processing., UKE, Hamburg, Germany.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (15-12-2013). Je ziet niet wat je ziet, 'Wakker Worden' kinderlezing NEMO.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (13-7-2013). Zintuigen Universiteit, Festival 5D, NDSM terrein, Amsterdam.
- Rouw, R. (speaker) (6-7-2013). Syesthesie, Festival 'De Beschaving", Botanische Tuinen, Utrecht.
Others
- Rouw, R. (participant) (17-10-2019 - 20-10-2019). IASAS EVENT 2019. Co-organized conference (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Rouw, R. (participant) (15-6-2016 - 18-6-2016). Symposium International Multisensory Research Forum 17th annual meeting, Suzhou (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Rouw, R. (organiser) (18-3-2015). KNAW Masterclass, Amsterdam. Decoding the neurobiology of synaesthesia (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Rouw, R. (organiser) (2015). 26 juni 2015, Amsterdam. Multisensoy Integration and Synaesthesia (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Rouw, R. (organiser), Colizoli, O. (organiser) & Murre, J. M. J. (organiser) (17-3-2014). The Adaptive Brain: Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2019
- Root, N. & Rouw, R. (9-12-2019). Supplementary material from "Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’". figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4666226.v1
- Dobkins, K., Rouw, R., Ramachandran, V. S. & Root, N. (9-12-2019). Supplementary material from "Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes". figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4666229.v2
- Rouw, R. & Root, N. (1-1-2019). dat_palette.RDs from Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830819.v1
- Root, N., Dobkins, K., Rouw, R. & Ramachandran, V. S. (1-1-2019). Example Stimuli from Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes.. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830840.v2
- Ramachandran, V. S., Rouw, R., Dobkins, K. & Root, N. (1-1-2019). Adult data from Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes.. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830837.v2
- Root, N. & Rouw, R. (1-1-2019). dat_palette_bwg_instr.RDs from Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830810.v1
- Root, N. & Rouw, R. (1-1-2019). dat_random_CIELuv.RDs from Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830807.v1
- Ramachandran, V. S., Rouw, R., Root, N. & Dobkins, K. (1-1-2019). Child data from Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes.. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830843.v2
- Root, N. & Rouw, R. (1-1-2019). palette_final.R from Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830816.v1
- Ramachandran, V. S., Rouw, R., Dobkins, K. & Root, N. (1-1-2019). Analysis Routine from Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes.. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830846.v2
- Root, N. & Rouw, R. (1-1-2019). dat_random...anSim.RDs from Distinct colours in the ‘synesthetic colour palette’. figshare Academic Research System. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9830813.v1
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Ancillary activities
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Science Director of IASAS
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Ream foundation (non profit)
Misophonia Advisory Group (member):
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Science Director of IASAS
Root, N. B., & Rouw, R. (2021). A Unifying Model of Grapheme-Color Associations in Synesthetes and Controls. In 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021): Comparative Cognition Animal Minds : Vienna, Austria, 26-29 July 2021 (Vol. 3, pp. 1663-1669). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; Vol. 43). Cognitive Science Society.