<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Joanna Atkinson Hearn <<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><a href="mailto:joanna.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">joanna.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk</a></span>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">27 March 2009 16:06:25 GMT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Kearsy Cormier <<a href="mailto:k.cormier@ucl.ac.uk">k.cormier@ucl.ac.uk</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Synaesthesia and sign language research project (BSL/ASL)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <br> <br> Are you Deaf? Or are you a hearing person who can sign? Do you see colours when you read printed letters or see signs such as fingerspelling or numbers? If so, you may have <span class="il">synaesthesia</span>.<br> <br> The University of Sussex and the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) at University College London, UK are conducting research into <span class="il">synaesthesia</span>, where people have extra perceptions such as colours for letters, or tastes for words. The type we are looking at is called Sign-to-Colour where people see colours when they sign or see others sign.<br> <br> Even if you don't see colours from signs but are interested in finding out more please read on. We are looking for both Deaf and hearing signers of either British Sign Language (BSL) or American Sign Language (ASL) to take part in an online experiment into <span class="il">synaesthesia</span> and sign language.<br> <br> The researcher Tanya Lyons is a psychology student at the University of Sussex, UK conducting the project as her undergraduate dissertation research. Her findings will form a pilot for a larger scale project.<br> <br> Would you like to participate in this online study?<br> We need both people who can see colours from signs and people who can’t see colours from signs to help with this research.<br> <br> We need both Deaf and hearing signers of either BSL or ASL.<br> <br> The experiment is online. You can select either BSL or ASL (or both if you know both). You will be shown film clips of individual fingerspelled letters and signed numbers.<br> <br> For each signed letter or number, you will need to choose a colour from the chart. If you see colours naturally please select the nearest colour from the chart. If you don’t see colours naturally, choose a colour that first comes to mind.<br> <br> Instructions<br> <br> Written English, BSL, ASL and pictorial instructions below:<br> <br> Click here to go to experiment: <a href="http://www.synesthete.org/?remail=tll22@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://www.synesthete.org/?remail=tll22@sussex.ac.uk</a><br> <br> <div> 1. Register & log in<br> 2. Tick box to say you understand that the experiment is voluntary and that you can stop and withdraw at any time.<br> 3. Find American Sign Language colour or British Sign Language colour on the <span class="il">synaesthesia</span> list. Tick the one that you use.<br> <br> 1. The task will take about 15 minutes. Remember even if you don’t see colours naturally when you see signs, choose the first colour that comes to mind.<br> 2. You can see your score at the end.<br> 3. I will send you a link to a questionnaire via email. Please fill this in as soon as you can.<br> <br> ASL instructions here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHfy-sjE5w" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHfy-sjE5w</a><br> <br> </div><div>BSL instructions here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleMo0q7wGI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleMo0q7wGI</a><br> <br> </div><div>Visual pictorial instructions here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLCj45OwCVw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLCj45OwCVw</a><br> <br> </div><div>Thank you for your time and help with this research.<br> <br> Contact<br> <br> </div>Please contact Tanya Lyons <a href="mailto:tll22@sussex.ac.uk" target="_blank">tll22@sussex.ac.uk</a> with any questions.<br> <br> If you would like to know more about <span class="il">synaesthesia</span> and synaethesia research: <a href="http://www.syn.sussex.ac.uk/" target="_blank">www.syn.sussex.ac.uk</a><br> <br> If you would like to know more about sign language research at DCAL: <a href="http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank">www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk </a>or contact <a href="mailto:joanna.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">joanna.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk</a><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> </blockquote></blockquote></div><br></body></html>