Children with
synesthesia say sometimes that it is distracting when they are trying to read.
Not exact matches
«It's very exciting,»
says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies
synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn't involved in the study.
To be sure, people with
synesthesia are not all the same,
says senior research associate Simon Lacey, the first author of the paper.
«There's been a debate about
synesthesia,» Sathian
says.
Other forms of
synesthesia exist, which some mirror - touch synesthetes also may have, Medina
says.
«There may be other forms of
synesthesia, such as seeing colours for sounds, or hearing sounds in response to visual motion, that are present in non-human animals,»
says Hubbard.
Young
says that to these people the smell of rain is linked to the color green, a connection she calls «cultural
synesthesia.»
Although more work needs to be done to prove that Tammet's
synesthesia does indeed account for his prodigious mathematical memory, Robertson
says, the findings fit with other evidence that synesthetes can use their enriched sensory perception to boost memory.
According to a little involuntary neurological condition called
Synesthesia, that
saying is basically untrue.
Synesthesia, encopresis,» he
said pausing, «Interesting, Prader - Willi, intermittent explosive, catatonic, Down Syndrome, interesting.