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Synesthesia as (multimodal) mental imagery

open access: yes, 2021
It has been repeatedly suggested that synesthesia is intricately connected with unusual ways of exercising one’s mental imagery, although it is not always entirely clear what the exact connection is.
Nanay, Bence
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Two Kinds of Visions, Synesthesia and Hypnagogia: A Comparison

open access: yesIris, 2020
When I was seven years old I discovered that I had been seeing the world differently from other people. My senses were joined. I was a synesthete. Over the years, I learned quite a bit about my synesthesia, but I was surprised in 2013 when I suddenly ...
Carol Steen
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of Synaesthesia on inclusive teaching and learning: A systematic literature review

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 189-199, June 2026.
Abstract Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental phenomenon involving consistent, involuntary cross‐modal sensory experiences. Though well‐documented in cognitive neuroscience, its implications for educational practice remain underexplored. This systematic narrative literature review investigates how synaesthesia may impact children's learning and inform ...
Alexandra Sewell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing priors in synesthesia

open access: yes, 2014
Item does not contain fulltextA new theoretical framework (PPSMC) applicable to synesthesia has been proposed, in which the discrepancy between the perceptual reality of (some) synesthetic concurrents and their subjective non-veridicality is being ...
Leeuwen, Tessa M. van   +2 more
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Synesthesia, Hallucination, and Autism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Synesthesia literally means a “union of the senses” whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involuntarily and automatically joined together in experience.
Gennaro, Rocco J.
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Decoding Linguistic Synesthesia in Chinese: Evidence From Directional Preferences and Hemispheric Processing Mechanism

open access: yesSAGE Open
Linguistic synesthesia, characterized by cross-modal sensory mappings, is frequently associated with metaphor and neurological synesthesia. However, while prior research has emphasized these latter phenomena, the cognitive and neural underpinnings of ...
Kaiwen Cheng, Shengqin Cao, Yu Chen
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‘I used to walk around the playground wondering where all my friends had gone’: The reflections of how adults with developmental prosopagnosia made friends in childhood

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 261-270, June 2026.
Abstract Current research into developmental prosopagnosia (DP) estimates a high prevalence rate in the general population, but there exist many gaps in the research. More needs to be learned about the lived experience of those with DP and how to identify it in children. Using reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored the lived experience of how
Alison Shorer
wiley   +1 more source

A Space for “us”: Sensory Ethnography as an Embodied Method in Food Anthropology

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Minority communities are vulnerable to poor health due to diet‐related diseases, a fact that food anthropologists have long discussed. This is also something that the individuals living within constrained food environments are aware of and challenge intellectually and on an embodied basis through food choices based on cultural and physical ...
Carolyn Mason
wiley   +1 more source

Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 641-651, May 2026.
Background An increasing number of children report anxiety in early to mid‐adolescence. Early identification of risk during the transition from primary to secondary schools (age 11) could enhance family‐ or school‐based interventions. While known predictors of adolescent anxiety provide some insight, there is a need to identify and understand ...
Foteini Tseliou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synesthesia: 3.1415... Orange.WhitePeriwinkleWhiteBlue...

open access: yes, 2023
In this paper we address the questions: What is synesthesia? What support(s) can teachers provide for their students who have synesthesia? Nicole, a future mathematics teacher who possesses this synesthesia “superpower”, describes how it impacted her ...
Noblitt, Bethany A   +5 more
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