Strauch, C., Leenaars, C., & Rouw, R. (2026). Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia. Elife https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.110390.1

Root, N. (2026). SynesthesiaColorPicker: An open-source color picker for online synesthesia research. Behavior Research Methods, 58(3), 79. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02882-1

Vreugdenhil, N., de Haan, E. H. F., Root, N., Becerra, L. L., Brown, W., Kapadia, K., ... & Rouw, R. (2025). Exploring touch-colour associations in achromatopsia: A case study. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.08.003

Root, N., Chkhaidze, A., Melero, H., Sidoroff-Dorso, A., Volberg, G., Zhang, Y., & Rouw, R. (2025). How “diagnostic” criteria interact to shape synesthetic behavior: The role of self-report and test–retest consistency in synesthesia research. Consciousness and Cognition, 129, 103819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103819

Ward, J., Maciel, S., Rouw, R., Simner, J., & Root, N. (2025). Synaesthesia is linked to differences in music preference and musical sophistication and a distinctive pattern of sound-color associations. Psychology of Music, 53(3), 453-473. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241250020

Becerra, L. L., Root, N. B., Ramji, R. S., Rouw, R., & Lipomi, D. J. (2024). Use of Materials Science to Understand Haptic Perception. Accounts of Materials Research, 6(2), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1021/accountsmr.4c00207

Rafeedi,T., Becerra, L. L., Root, N., Qie, Y., Brown, W., Qi, B., ... & Lipomi, D.J. (2024). Enhanced Dye‐Sensitized Mechanosensation Utilizing Pulsed and Digitally Modulated Light. AdvancedScience, 11(39), 2403690. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202403690

Blau, R., Abdal, A., Root, N., Chen, A. X., Rafeedi, T., Ramji, R., ... & Lipomi, D. J. (2024). Conductive block copolymer elastomers and psychophysical thresholding for accurate haptic effects. Science Robotics, 9(91), eadk3925. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adk3925

Root,N., Asano, M., Melero, H., Kim, C. Y., Sidoroff-Dorso, A. V., Vatakis, A., ...& 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

Root,N., & Rouw, R. (2021). A Unifying Model of Grapheme-Color Associations in Synesthetes and Controls. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43, No. 43). https://dare.uva.nl/id/16da42c2-6a7f-4c0f-9340-8e04a0f2812d

Root,N., Bhattacharyya, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2020). Grapheme–ColorSynesthesia in an Abugida: a Bengali Case Study. Multisensory Research, 34(2),187-218. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10036

Rouw, R., & Root, N. B. (2019). Distinctcolours in the ‘synaesthetic colour palette’. Philosophical Transactions ofthe Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787).  https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0028

Root, N. B., Dobkins, K., Ramachandran, V. S., &Rouw, R. (2019). Echoes from the past: synaesthetic colour associations reflect childhood gender stereotypes. PhilosophicalTransactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1787). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0572

Dhong,C., Miller, R., Root, N. B., Gupta, S., Kayser, L. V., Carpenter, C. W., ...& Lipomi, D. J. (2019). Role of indentation depth and contact area on human perception of softness for haptic interfaces. Science advances, 5(8),eaaw8845. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw8845

Carpenter, C. W., Dhong, C., Root, N. B., Rodriquez, D.,Abdo, E. E., Skelil, K., ... & Lipomi, D. J. (2018). Humanability to discriminate surface chemistry by touch. Materials Horizons, 5(1), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MH00800G

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

Colizoli, O., Murre, J. M., & Rouw, R. (2012). Pseudo-synesthesia through reading books with colored letters. PloS one, 7 (6), e39799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039799

Rouw, R., Scholte, H. S., & Colizoli, O. (2011). Brainareas involved in synaesthesia: a review. Journal of neuropsychology, 5(2),214-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02006.x

Brang,D., Rouw, R., Ramachandran, V. S., & Coulson, S. (2011). Similarly shapedletters evoke similar colors in grapheme–color synesthesia. Neuropsychologia, 49(5) , 1355-1358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.002

Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2010). Neuralbasis of individual differences in synesthetic experiences. Journal ofNeuroscience, 30(18), 6205-6213. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3444-09.2010

Rouw, R., & Scholte, H. S. (2007). Increasedstructural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia. Natureneuroscience, 10(6), 792-797. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1906