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Synesthesia

Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in other sensory or cognitive pathways. Synesthesia can manifest as a bridge between the five traditional senses, though it can also include other perceptions, such as…

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4%
Pronunciation
/ˌsɪn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/
Specialty
Neuroscience, neurology, psychology

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related to Further reading · 99
Synesthesia → Affect-related, Allen-Hermanson, Annual Review, April, Archived, August, Automaticity, Biobehavioral Reviews, Bradley, Bradshaw JL, Brady Haran, British Journal, Broucker, Chemical Biology, Cognition, Cohen Kadosh, Color, Consciousness, Cortex, Current Opinion
related to Literature · 17
Synesthesia → Anna Ferrara's The Woman, Author, Be Normal, Blue, Books, Holly Payne's The Sound, Jane Yardley, Julia Glass, Mango-Shaped Space, Painting Ruby Tuesday, Patricia Lynne Duffy, Romantic, The Gift, The Whole World Over, Vladimir Nabokov, Wendy Mass, Who Tried
related to Genetics · 13
Synesthesia → Although, Diagnostic, Diseases, Due, Further, ICD, Indeed, International Classification, Like, Mental Disorders IV, Statistical Manual, While, X-linked
related to Notable cases · 12
Synesthesia → Alexander Luria, Because, Martian, Neuroscientist, Ramachandran, Russian, Shereshevsky, Shereshevsky's, Solomon Shereshevsky, The, While, Words
related to Prevalence · 12
Synesthesia → Also, Edinburgh, Estimates, Glasgow Universities, However, In, Prevalence, So, Some, The, This, University
related to External links · 9
Synesthesia → April, January, Media, Retrieved, Richard, Richard CytowicCytowic, The, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Research · 8
Synesthesia → An, Even, In, Individuals, Research, Tenerife, The, Wolfgang Köhler
related to Lexical–gustatory synesthesia · 7
Synesthesia → Derek Tastes, Earwax, For, It, James Wannerton, The, This
related to Ordinal linguistic personification · 7
Synesthesia → Although, History, Julia Simner, OLP, Ordinal, Ordinal-linguistic, This
related to Other forms · 7
Synesthesia → ASMR, In August, It, Other, Social Neuroscience, There, While

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color synesthetes experiences also one colors may form music see people research citation needed sound synesthetic numbers grapheme common study

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SynesthesiaFrequency4%1.00infobox
SynesthesiaPronunciation/ˌsɪn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/1.00infobox
SynesthesiaSpecialtyNeuroscience, neurology, psychology1.00infobox
Synesthesiais aassociation of sounds with colors0.90text
Synesthesiais ararely documented form of synesthesia in which emotions trigger a response in another sensation0.90text
Synesthesiais acombination of different types of synesthesia0.90text
Synesthesiais aphenomenon mediated by the extraction of the meaning of the inducing stimulus0.90text
clattering dishes or dog barks trigger colorinstance ofand assorted environmental sounds0.80text
firework shapes that ariseinstance ofand assorted environmental sounds0.80text
move aroundinstance ofand assorted environmental sounds0.80text
and then fade when the sound endsinstance ofand assorted environmental sounds0.80text
graphemeinstance ofOrdinal linguistic personification normally co-occurs with other forms of synesthesia0.80text

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