Psychology & Psychiatry
Seeing in the dark: Most people can see their body's movement in the absence of light
Find a space with total darkness and slowly move your hand from side to side in front of your face. What do you see?
Oct 30, 2013
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Search results for synesthesia
Psychology & Psychiatry
Bach to the blues, our emotions match music to colors
(Medical Xpress)—Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, ...
May 16, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mirror-sensory synesthetes show more empathic and altruistic behaviour
About one in fifty people has it: mirror-sensory synesthesia. This means they can feel it in their own bodies when they see others get hurt or touched, like seeing someone cut one's finger or getting a hug. New research by ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Neuroscience
Why some people hear colour, taste sounds
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shed new light on synesthesia - the effect of hearing colours, seeing sounds and other cross-sensory phenomena.
Apr 9, 2015
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Neuroscience
Neuroscience: The extraordinary ease of ordinal series
Familiar categories whose members appear in orderly sequences are processed differently than others in the brain, according to new research published by David Eagleman in the open access journal Frontiers in Neuroscience ...
Dec 20, 2012
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Genetics
A possible genetic link found between autism and synesthesia
A team of epidemiologists and neurologists from Karolinska Institutet, Tilburg University and the University of Gothenburg has found a possible genetic link between synesthesia and autism. In their study, reported in the ...
Neuroscience
A subtitled world: Uncovering the secrets of tickertape synesthesia
The acquisition of reading and writing are complex mechanisms whose subtleties we do not yet understand. Fabien Hauw and Laurent Cohen (Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University, AP-HP), neurologists at Paris Brain Institute, hope ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Neuroscience
Link with synesthesia offers new insight into autism
People with autism often have enhanced sensory sensitivity. They are, for example, much more likely to be affected by bright light and loud noises. They also have a better eye for detail. In a new paper, which was published ...
Nov 1, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers examine unusual condition of mirror-touch synesthesia
When a student in a University of Delaware study watched a video of someone else's hand being touched, she felt the touch on her own hand. While that may seem a little eerie to most of us, she's not alone. About two in 100 ...
Feb 6, 2017
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Neuroscience
A longitudinal study of grapheme-color synaesthesia in childhood
What colour is H? Is 4 brighter than 9? For most people these questions might seem baffling, but not for people with grapheme-color synesthesia.
Nov 12, 2013
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