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Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  1. Rafeedi T*, Becerra L*, Root N, ..., Rouw R, Jokerst J, Lipomi D (In Revision). Conductive Block Copolymer Elastomers and Psychophysical Thresholding for Accurate Haptic Sensory Substitution in Epidermal Devices. Advanced Science. [preprint]
  2. Blau R*, Adbal A*, Root N, ..., Rouw R, Lipomi D (2024). Conductive Block Copolymer Elastomers and Psychophysical Thresholding for Accurate Haptic Sensory Substitution in Epidermal Devices. Science Robotics, 9(91). doi:10.1126/scirobotics.adk3925
  3. Ward J, Maciel S, Rouw R, Simner J, Root N (2024). Synaesthesia is Linked to Differences in Music Preference and Musical Sophistication and a Distinctive Pattern of Sound-Colour Associations. Psychology of Music, 0(0). doi:10.1177/03057356241250020
  4. Root N, Asano M, Melero H, Kim CY, Sidoroff-Dorso AV, Vatakis A, Yokosawa K, Ramachandarn VS, 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. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2021.103192
  5. Root N, Rouw R (2021). A Unifying Model of Grapheme-Color Associations in Synesthetes and Controls [Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings]. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43). Download
  6. Root N, Bhattacharyya P, Ramachandran VS (2020). Grapheme-Color Synesthesia in an Abugida: A Bengali Case Study. Multisensory Research, 34(2), 187-218. doi:10.1163/22134808-bja10036
  7. Carpenter C, Rodriquez D, Tan S, Root N, ...Lipomi D (2020) Electropneumotactile stimulation: multimodal haptic actuator enabled by a stretchable conductive polymer on inflatable pockets. Advanced Materials Technologies, 1901119. doi:10.1002/admt.201901119
  8. Keef CV, Kayser LV, Tronboll S, Carpenter C, Root N, ...Lipomi D (2020) Virtual Texture Generated using Elastomeric Conductive Block Copolymer in Wireless Multimodal Haptic Glove. Advanced Intelligent Systems., 2(4), 2000018. doi:10.1002/aisy.202000018
  9. Lipomi DJ, Dhong C, Carpenter C, Root N, Ramachandran VS (2019). Organic Haptics: Intersection of Materials Chemistry and Tactile Perception. Advanced Functional Materials. doi:10.1002/adfm.201906850
  10. Rouw R, Root N (2019). The Synaesthetic Color “Palette”: Similarities and differences in the color associations of synesthetes and non-synesthetes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374: 20190028. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0028
  11. Root N, Dobkins K, Ramachandran VS, Rouw R (2019). Echoes from the Past: Synaesthetic Color Associations Reflect Childhood Gender Stereotypes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374: 20180572, doi:10.1098/rstb.2018.0572
  12. Dhong C, Miller R, Root N, Gupta S, Kayser LV, Carpenter C, Loh KJ, Ramachandran VS, Lipomi DJ (2019). Role of indentation depth and contact area on human perception of softness for haptic interfaces. Science Advances, 5(8), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw8845
  13. Root N, Rouw R, Asano M, Kim CY, Melero H, Yokosawa K, Ramachandran VS (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, doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.003
  14. Carpenter C*, Dhong C*, Root N*, Rodriquez D, Abdo E, Skelil K, Alkhadra MA, Ramierz J, Ramachandran VS, Lipomi DJ (2017). Human ability to discriminate surface chemistry by touch. Materials Horizons, doi: 10.1039/C7MH00800G
  15. Root N, Case L, Burrus CJ, Ramachandran VS (2015). External allocentric self-representations improve self-awareness in a child with autism. Neurocase, 21:206-10, doi: 10.1080/13554794.2014.888455

* Authors contributed equally

Conference Abstracts:

  1. Root N (2024). How Language Shapes Grapheme-Color Associations [Contributed Talk]. UKSA/ASA Synesthesia Conference; Oxford University, UK
  2. Root N (2024). What Color are your "I"s? Synesthesia as a Tool to Study the World's Languages. [Invited Talk]. Mini symposium on Synaesthesia, Perception, and Individual Differences; Aalborg University, Denmark
  3. Root N, Becerra L, de Haan E, Lipomi D, Rouw R (2023). Synesthesia as "Tool" [Poster]. International Multisensory Research Forum, 21st Annual Meeting; Brussels, Belgium
  4. Root N, Becerra L, Lipomi D, Rouw R (2023). A Predictive Model of Cross-Modal Haptic-Color Associations for "Translation" of Visual Stimuli into Touch. [Contributed Talk]. Psychonomic Society, 64th Annual Meeting; San Francisco, California
  5. Root N, Becerra L, de Haan E, Lipomi D, Rouw R (2023). Cross-modal Vision-to-Touch "Translations": Materials Science, Psychophysics, and Synesthesia [Poster]. International Multisensory Research Forum, 21st Annual Meeting; Brussels, Belgium
  6. Root N (2023). Synesthesia as a conscious experience of linguistic representation: a case study (diacritical marks) and call for international collaboration. [Poster]. European Sensory Science Society, Symposium on Human Sensory Experiences; University of Sussex, UK
  7. Root N (2022). Test-retest consistency around the world: does synesthetic consistency differ by language? [Contributed Talk]. International Congress on Synesthesia, Science, and Art, 7th Annual Meeting; Grenada, Spain
  8. Root N (2021). The synesthetic experience in non-English languages [Invited Talk]. Uncommon Senses, 3rd Meeting; Montreal, Canada
  9. Root N, Asano M, Kim CY, Melero H, Yokosawa K, Ramachandran VS, Rouw R (2018). Language Matters: a Five-Language Dataset of Grapheme-Color Synesthetes Reveals Language-Dependent Regulatory Factors [Abstract]. Bridging Senses: New Developments in Synesthesia; The Royal Society, London, UK.
  10. Dhong C, Miller R, Arroyo R, Carpenter C, Root N, Lipomi D (2018). Understanding Artificial Touch: Designing “Softness” and Molecular Discriminability for Haptic Devices. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2018 Annual Meeting; Pittsburgh, PA.
  11. Root N, Rouw R, Asano M, Kim CY, Melero H, Yokosawa K, Ramachandran VS (2017). The Promise of Multi-Language Synesthesia Datasets [Contributed Talk].International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists; 1st Annual Meeting; Los Angeles, CA.
  12. Root N, Ramachandran VS (2017). Modeling a nonlinear functional hierarchy of unconscious processing: a directed graph framework. [Abstract]. European Conference on Visual Perception, 40th Annual Meeting; Berlin, Germany
  13. Root N, Rasheed A, Ramachandran VS (2016). Individual Differences in Unconscious Processing Capacity [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience, 46th Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA.
  14. Root N, Ramachandran VS (2015). Mappings between acoustic properties and visual experience in a timbre-to-signt synesthete [Abstract]. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 19th Annual Meeting; Paris, France
  15. Root N, Baron K, Shah Z, Ramachandran VS (2014). Phobic Responses to Masked Stimuli: A Dissociation Between Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Phobias [Abstract]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 21st Annual Meeting; Boston, MA
  16. Root N, Goharzad A, Ramachandran VS (2013). Illusory Alignment Across the Blind Spot Distorts Perception of Nearby Space [Abstract]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 20th Annual Meeting; San Francisco, CA.
  17. Root N, Case L, Ramachandran VS (2012). Heightened skin conductance response to animate, arousing visual stimuli rendered unconscious using interocular suppression [Abstract]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 19th Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL.
  18. Reavis EA, Root N, Kohler P, Tse P (2010) Idiosyncratic spatial inhomogeneities in breakthrough to consciousness of suppressed visual stimuli [Abstract]. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 14th annual meeting; Toronto, Canada.