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Chromaesthesia is the commonest forms of synaesthesia. Also called 'coloured hearing', where coulours and sounds are associated automatically in the mind of the individual. I was wondering whether cases of chromaesthesia have been suspected in non human animals, in great apes/monkeys in particular... Thank you!
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Unfortunately, my answer is negative. I just skipped through a (popular) science book from my library (Richard E. Cytowik, "The Man Who Tasted Shapes") in which the author develops the thesis that the kind of limbic system found in mammals has a major role in synaesthesia. That would at least give some plausibility to the idea that great apes may be able to experience synaesthesia, as opposed to say crocodiles. But I haven't heard of any related research.
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Hi ,
We are investigation whether Syaesthesia score across has a significant difference across the four groups av individuals (male/female respective high/low in opennennss to experience personality traits). This is a very small sample size just in order to try the process and we needed to exclude a part of sample where synaesthesia test has not been valid which has result that now we have only 2 participants left in one of our four groups.
My question is if it is technically possible to run a ANOVA one-way in this case? Will ANOVA accept only 2 participants in one of 4 groups?
Thank you in advance!
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I think it is possible, because with two cases there should be some variance within the cell. But you should not do it. The results will be far too unstable for anyone to believe that they might generalize.
I would suggest giving up on the 2x2 ANOVA and just running two t-tests, one by sex and one by openness. Or, in the latter case, just correlating your results with openness scores.
It is sad that so many of your case protocols were invalid. Is this something you can fix? Or can you gather more participants? Because you seem to have an interesting idea and it would be a shame not to give it a real evaluation.