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 …

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their
relation to reality. In the second edition of this popular book, William Fish introduces the …

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 …

Despite a recent upsurge of research, much remains unknown about the neurobiological
mechanisms underlying synaesthesia. By integrating results obtained so far in Magnetic …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …