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 …

Learning and synesthesia are profoundly interconnected. On the one hand, the
development of synesthesia is clearly influenced by learning. Synesthetic inducers–the …

Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which stimuli presented through one modality will
spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality. The condition occurs from …

Synesthesia has historically been linked with enhanced creativity, but this had never been
demonstrated in a systematically recruited sample. The current study offers a broad …

Currently, little is known about how synesthesia develops and which aspects of synesthesia
can be acquired through a learning process. We review the increasing evidence for the role …

The recent sharp increase in studies on synesthesia has taught us a lot about this
fascinating condition. Still, while we define synesthesia as 'the mixing of senses', the great …

In this article, I argue that synaesthesia is not on a continuum with neurotypical cognition.
Synaesthesia is special: its phenomenology is different; it has distinct causal mechanisms; …

In this study we investigated whether synaesthesia is associated with a particular cognitive
style. Cognitive style refers to preferred modes of information processing, such as a verbal …

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 …

People with synaesthesia not only have–by definition–unusual experiences (eg, numbers
triggering colour), they also have a different cognitive profile (eg, in terms of their memory …