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- Synaesthesia is a condition where one sensory input, like sound, leads to the automatic experience of another sensory perception, such as seeing colors.
- In the past, scientists were skeptical about studying synaesthesia due to its subjective nature, leading to it being overlooked in research.
- Recent advancements over the last twenty years have allowed for synaesthesia to be recognized as a legitimate scientific phenomenon, prompting thorough investigation into its cognitive, behavioral, neurological, genetic, and demographic aspects.
Article Abstract
In synaesthesia one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, such as when hearing a sound produces photisms--that is, mental percepts of colours. In the past, the idiosyncrasy of this phenomenon, as well as the natural mistrust of scientists towards the subjective, consigned synaesthesia to the periphery of scientific interest. However, the landscape has changed radically in the last two decades. The labour of many researchers, inside as well as outside of cognitive neuroscience, has transformed synaesthesia into a scientific reality whose existence can be demonstrated and studied empirically. The present paper summarizes and reflects on our current knowledge concerning synaesthesia in all its aspects (cognition, behaviour, neurology, genetics, and demographics).
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