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·May 23, 2018·4 min read

‘Seeing’ Music or ‘Tasting’ Numbers? What We Can Learn From Those With Synesthesia

Researchers take a deeper look at synesthesia, revealing the condition could be linked to some autoimmune diseases. The paper also reports synesthetes have better memory and are more creative than those without the disorder.

Image shows a person taking the mirror touch test for synethesia.

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·February 6, 2017·5 min read

“I Feel For You”: Researchers Examine Mirror Touch Synesthesia

Researchers explore how some people can feel a physical sensation when they witness another person being touched.

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·February 1, 2023·7 min read

A Subtitled World: Uncovering the Secrets of Tickertape Synesthesia

Study reveals how we connect sounds, letters, and words to their meaning, and the mechanisms behind why those with "ticker-tape" synesthesia tend to see subtitles when listening to the spoken word.

This image shows vowel letters under different colors

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·April 4, 2019·5 min read

Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

While only 1 in 25 people has synesthesia, a new study reports intuitions about 'sound colors' are shared by a greater percentage of people. Sound color perception is mainly driven by the vowels in language.

The image shows a silhouette of a person surrounded by colorful music notes.

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·May 16, 2013·4 min read

Bach to the Blues: Our Emotions Match Music to Colors

According to new research, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel.

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·May 15, 2019·4 min read

Colourful language: Enhanced language learning in synesthetes discovered

People with grapheme-color synesthesia, associating colors with numbers and letters, have a significant advantage when it comes to statistical learning.

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·March 3, 2023·5 min read

Imagination Is a Spectrum, and 1% Of People Can’t Mentally Visualize Things at All

1% of the population experience aphantasia, or mind-blindness, which is an inability to visualize concepts or thoughts in their imagination. Researchers investigate this phenomenon and offer explanations as to how this may occur.

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·May 8, 2018·3 min read

Misophonia – When Certain Sounds Drive You Crazy

Does the sound of someone chewing or slurping a drink generate a strong emotional response in you? You could be suffering from misophonia. A new article looks at the effects of living with misophonia.

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·October 25, 2017·15 min read

My Sudden Synesthesia: How I Went Blind and Started Hearing Colors

Recovering from suddenly losing her vision, Vanessa Potter experienced a mingling of her senses and altered the way in which she saw colors.

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·April 1, 2015·1 min read

New App Tests for Synesthesia

Radboud University researchers have created a smartphone app which tests for synesthesia.

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·March 27, 2019·5 min read

People ‘hear’ flashes due to disinhibited flow of signals around the brain

The synesthesia effect of being able to 'hear' silent movements may depend upon disinhibition of signaling between the visual and auditory brain regions. The study found musicians are more likely to experience the 'visual ear' phenomena than those with no musical training.