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Personalised Perception: The Effect of Personality on the Sensory Effects of Psychedelics

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction Psychedelics induce a wide range of sensory distortions and hallucinations (henceforth ‘distortions’). Yet, little is known about factors that influence the occurrence of certain distortions. Extra‐pharmacological variables including personality traits have been found to correlate with the occurrence of different subjective ...
Alexander Boardman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consonance Shapes the Multisensory and Emotional Mappings of Musical Intervals Across English‐ and Mandarin‐Speakers

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1561, Issue 1, July 2026.
We investigated how English‐speakers from North America and the United Kingdom and Mandarin‐speakers from China map musical intervals onto sensory and emotional dimensions. Across vision, touch, taste, and affect, consonant intervals were consistently linked to positive, smooth, warm, and bright qualities, whereas dissonant intervals were associated ...
Nicola Di Stefano   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case of co-occuring synesthesia, autism, prodigious talent and strong structural brain connectivity

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Synesthesia is a sensory phenomenon where certain domain-specific stimuli trigger additional sensations of e.g. color or texture. The condition occurs in about 4% of the general population, but is overrepresented in individuals with Autism ...
Andreas Riedel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative Investigation of Synesthesia in “Sight al-Zand” by AbulʿAla Al-MaʿarriAnd the Poetical Works of Shoorideh-E-Shirazi [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2017
Rhetorical devices make literary works attractive and endow words with pleasant rhythm. Synesthesia, one of these devices, is applied to the combination of two or more senses in a way that increases words effect through creating spiritual rhythm.
Javad Gholamalizadeh   +2 more
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

Synesthesia and music perception

open access: yesDementia & Neuropsychologia
The present review examined the cross-modal association of sensations and their relationship to musical perception. Initially, the study focuses on synesthesia, its definition, incidence, forms, and genetic and developmental factors.
Guilherme Francisco F. Bragança   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Synesthesia does not help to recover perceptual dominance following flash suppression

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Grapheme-colour synesthesia occurs when letters or numbers elicit an abnormal colour sensation (e.g., printed black letters are perceived as coloured). This phenomenon is typically reported following explicit presentation of graphemes.
Diana Jimena Arias, Dave Saint-Amour
doaj   +1 more source

‘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

Mirror-Touch and Ticker Tape Perceptions in Synesthesia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
A fundamental question in the field of synesthesia is whether it is associated with other cognitive phenomena. The current study examined synesthesia’s connections with phenomenal traits of mirror-touch and ticker tape experiences, as well as the ...
Charlotte Anne Chun   +2 more
doaj   +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

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