#38 Synesthesia Minding the Brain

Some people perceive colors when they see certain words, letters or numbers, and some people experience geometric shapes as associated with certain tastes. These are just two examples of synesthesia, a condition characterized by the mixing of the senses. In this episode, Jim and Kim talk about synesthesia and Jim interviews a synesthete. What is the prevalence of synesthesia? Is it heritable? What is it like to have synesthesia? Get the answers to these questions, and many more, on this episode of Minding the Brain!

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Investigating Spatial Sequence Synesthesia

Investigating Spatial Sequence Synesthesia



Synaesthesia—A Window Into Perception, Thought and Language

https://web.archive.org/web/20060527085838/http://psy.ucsd.edu/~edhubbard/papers/JCS.pdf

Synesthetic associations and psychosensory symptoms of temporal epilepsy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714732/

A critical review of the neuroimaging literature on synesthesia

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379872/