Synaesthesia

• Main Author: Michael Banissy (auth)
• Other Authors: Clare Jonas (auth), Roi Cohen Kadosh (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; synaesthesia; veridical mapping; synesthesia; multisensory; sensory substitution
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Synaesthesia is a rare experience in which one property of a stimulus evokes a secondary experience that is not typically associated with the first (e.g. hearing words can evoke tastes). In recent years a number of studies have highlighted the authenticity of synaesthesia and attempted to use the ex...