Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation of one sensory modality causes unusual
experiences in a second, unstimulated modality. Although long treated as a curiosity, recent …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as
identified by individuals on the autism spectrum. Despite frequently being identified by …

Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to
sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as …

Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of
qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual …

In synaesthesia, ordinary stimuli elicit extraordinary experiences. When grapheme-color
synaesthetes view black text, each grapheme elicits a photism—a highly specific experience …

The world is experienced as a unified whole, but sensory systems do not deliver it to the
brain in this way. Signals from different sensory modalities are initially registered in separate …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

Grapheme-color synesthetes experience specific colors associated with specific number or
letter characters. To determine the neural locus of this condition, we compared behavioral …