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Survival of the synesthesia gene: why do people hear colors and taste words?

open access: yesPLoS Biology, 2011
Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which stimuli presented through one modality will spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality. The condition occurs from increased communication between sensory regions and is involuntary, automatic ...
David Brang, V S Ramachandran
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The Relationship Between Music-Related Types of Synesthesia and Mental Imagery in Synesthete Musicians

open access: yesMusic & Science, 2023
Synesthesia is a perceptual and conceptual phenomenon that has been linked to a heightened capacity for mental imagery. However, our understanding of music-related types of synesthesia and mental imagery is still in its infancy. This study therefore aims
Solange Glasser
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Synesthesia, sensory-motor contingency and semantic emulation: How swimming style-color synesthesia challenges the traditional view of synesthesia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which an additional nonstandard perceptual experience occurs consistently in response to ordinary stimulation applied to the same or another modality.
Aleksandra eMroczko-Wąsowicz   +2 more
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The Presence of the Phenomenon of Artistic Synesthesia in Painting

open access: yesReview of Artistic Education, 2021
The present study elucidates the presence of the phenomenon of artistic synesthesia in painting, describes the types of synesthesia and their effects, sensory symbiotic relationships, correlations with different genres of art: dance, music, literature ...
Florea Eleonora, Cojocaru Stela
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The color of smiling: computational synaesthesia of facial expressions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This note gives a preliminary account of the transcoding or rechanneling problem between different stimuli as it is of interest for the natural interaction or affective computing fields. By the consideration of a simple example, namely the color response
C Spence   +15 more
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Priming letters by colors: evidence for the bidirectionality of grapheme–color synesthesia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In synesthesia, stimulation of one sensory modality leads to a percept in another nonstimulated modality, for example, graphemes trigger an additional color percept in grapheme–color synesthesia, which encompasses the variants letter–color and digit ...
Andreas Kalckert   +7 more
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The ‘Golden Age’ of synesthesia inquiry in the late Nineteenth Century (1876–1895) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Synesthesia is a rare neurological trait that causes unusual, often cross-sensory, experiences (e.g., seeing colors when listening to music). This article traces the history of synesthesia in the period 1876 to 1895.
Day, Sean A   +4 more
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Serotonergic Hyperactivity as a Potential Factor in Developmental, Acquired and Drug-Induced Synesthesia

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Though synesthesia research has seen a huge growth in recent decades, and tremendous progress has been made in terms of understanding the mechanism and cause of synesthesia, we are still left mostly in the dark when it comes to the mechanistic ...
Berit eBrogaard
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Synesthesia in Netizen Comments on the Video of the Song “Khanti”

open access: yesSuar Betang, 2023
Synesthesia is a metaphor in the form of an expression related to the five senses used in a particular object or concept. Many people use language containing synesthesia to express something that has to do with human senses, especially in expressing ...
Tanti Ariana   +2 more
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“Becoming the Color.” Synesthetic Gesture in a Case Study of Multiple Forms of Synesthesia [PDF]

open access: yesPhainomena, 2021
Phenomenological investigations of participants with grapheme-color synesthesia—a condition wherein an inducer consistently and automatically triggers an additional concurrent perceptual experience—have revealed an apparent paradox.
Aleš Oblak   +2 more
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