Do you taste words or hear colours? Here’s the neuroscience behind synaesthesia
- Written by Sophie Smit, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sydney
Vitally Gariev/UnsplashHave you ever tasted a word, or seen colours while listening to music?
If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people who have a fascinating trait known as synaesthesia.
Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where the activation of one sense, such as hearing, triggers the activation of another usually unrelated...
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