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 …

People with synaesthesia show an enhanced memory relative to demographically matched
controls. The most obvious explanation for this is that the 'extra'perceptual experiences lead …

In today's digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images,
hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even 'new'literacies, we know relatively little about …

Synesthesia is a condition where presentation of one perceptual class consistently evokes
additional experiences in different perceptual categories. Synesthesia is widely considered …

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both
positive and negative emotions. The smell or taste of a long forgotten sweet can stimulate a …

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 …

Synaesthesia may facilitate the expression of creativity. Therefore synaesthetes may be
more common in the world of creative art. To test this possibility, we used behavioural and …

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

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 …

Synesthesia based in visual modalities has been associated with reports of vivid visual
imagery. We extend this finding to consider whether other forms of synesthesia are also …