Normal perception involves experiencing objects within perceptual scenes as real, as
existing in the world. This property of “perceptual presence” has motivated “sensorimotor …

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 …

Objective We aim to elucidate misophonia, a condition in which particular sounds elicit
disproportionally strong aversive reactions. Method A large online study extensively …

Misophonia is a relatively unexplored chronic condition in which a person experiences
autonomic arousal (analogous to an involuntary “fight-or-flight” response) to certain …

People with aphantasia have impoverished visual imagery so struggle to form mental
pictures in the mind's eye. By testing people with and without aphantasia, we investigate the …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

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 …

Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

For some people, simple sensory stimuli (eg, noises, patterns) may reliably evoke intense
and aversive reactions. This is common in certain clinical groups (eg, autism) and varies …

In 2001, Ramachandran and Hubbard introduced the cross‐activation model of grapheme‐
colour synaesthesia. On the occasion of its 10‐year anniversary, we review the evidence …