Is there a burden attached to synaesthesia? Health screening of synaesthetes in the general population

DA Carmichael, R Smees… - British Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Synaesthesia has long been considered a benign alternative form of perception most often
associated with positive rather than negative outcomes. The condition has been associated …

The “golden age” of synesthesia inquiry in the late nineteenth century (1876–1895)

J Jewanski, J Simner, SA Day, N Rothen… - Journal of the History of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Synesthesia is a rare neurological trait that causes unusual, often cross-sensory,
experiences (eg, seeing colors when listening to music). This article traces the history of …

Inducing synesthesia in non-synesthetes: Short-term visual deprivation facilitates auditory-evoked visual percepts

A Nair, D Brang - Consciousness and cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Sounds can modulate activity in visual cortex, facilitating the detection of visual targets.
However, these sound-driven modulations are not thought to evoke conscious visual …

Do synaesthesia and mental imagery tap into similar cross-modal processes?

A O'Dowd, SM Cooney… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Synaesthesia has previously been linked with imagery abilities, although an understanding
of a causal role for mental imagery in broader synaesthetic experiences remains elusive …

Investigation of the relationship between neuroplasticity and grapheme-color synesthesia

N Eckardt, C Sinke, S Bleich, R Lichtinghagen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Grapheme-color synesthesia is a normal and healthy variation of human perception. It is
characterized by the association of letters or numbers with color perceptions. The etiology of …

Learning in colour: children with grapheme-colour synaesthesia show cognitive benefits in vocabulary and self-evaluated reading

R Smees, J Hughes… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cognitive benefits associated with grapheme-colour synaesthesia in adults are well
documented, but far less is known about whether such benefits might arise in synaesthetes …

synr: An R package for handling synesthesia consistency test data

L Wilsson, TM Van Leeuwen, J Neufeld - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Synesthesia is a phenomenon where sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts elicit additional
perceptual experiences. For instance, in a commonly studied type of synesthesia, stimuli …

[HTML][HTML] Do the colors of your letters depend on your language? Language-dependent and universal influences on grapheme-color synesthesia in seven languages

N Root, M Asano, H Melero, CY Kim… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grapheme-color synesthetes experience graphemes as having a consistent color (eg,“N is
turquoise”). Synesthetes' specific associations (which letter is which color) are often …

Objectum sexuality: A sexual orientation linked with autism and synaesthesia

J Simner, JEA Hughes, N Sagiv - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Objectum-sexuality (OS) is a sexual orientation which has received little attention in the
academic literature. Individuals who identify as OS experience emotional, romantic and/or …

Consistency of synesthetic association varies with grapheme familiarity: A longitudinal study of grapheme-color synesthesia

K Uno, M Asano, K Yokosawa - Consciousness and Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Grapheme-color synesthesia is a condition in which the visual perception of letters or
numbers induces a specific color sensation. The consistency of grapheme-color association …