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 ...
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Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to sort out and integrate these signals, allowing us to perceive the world and interact ...
Sep 26, 2016
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Neuroscientists at Emory University have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and visual shapes. The results ...
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A busy kitchen is a place where all of the senses are on high alert—your brain is processing the sound of sizzling oil, the aroma of spices, the visual aesthetic of food arranged on a plate, the feel and taste of taking a ...
Oct 27, 2015
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Being able to identify a smell or flavour appears to be the most important factor in how some synesthetes 'see' them, according to a study just published in the journal Cognitive Neuroscience.
Oct 15, 2015
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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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Developmental psychologist Daphne Maurer has spent more than four decades studying the complexities of the human mind.
Jun 27, 2014
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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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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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About nine months after suffering a stroke, the patient noticed that words written in a certain shade of blue evoked a strong feeling of disgust. Yellow was only slightly better. Raspberries, which he never used to eat very ...
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