Sentences with phrase «particular synesthetes»
What makes synesthesia different from drug - induced hallucinations is that synesthetic sensations are highly consistent: for particular synesthetes, the note F is always a reddish shade of rust, a 3 is always pink or truck is always blue.
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No particular genetic variant was shared across all synesthetes in all three families, suggesting there is no single «synesthesia gene» or set of genes.
As I understand it, the synesthete experiences these cross-sensory perceptions in a very real sense - they are not «in the mind's eye» but experienced physically and consistently (e.g. hearing a particular piece of music would trigger a particular taste every time).
The most common form of synesthesia appears to be when someone sees a letter, number or word as a particular color - for example a synesthete might see the word car as sky blue and the number 5 as light green.