Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of
qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual …

Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to
sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as …

Synesthesia is an unusual condition in which stimulation of one modality evokes sensation
or experience in another modality. Although discussed in the literature well over a century …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

Background Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental condition in which a sensation in one
modality triggers a perception in a second modality. Autism (shorthand for Autism Spectrum …

The last couple of years have seen a rapid growth of interest (especially amongst cognitive
psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and developmental researchers) in the study of …

In this article, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework for understanding
intersensory development. Their approach is based upon insights gained from adults who …

Despite a recent upsurge of research, much remains unknown about the neurobiological
mechanisms underlying synaesthesia. By integrating results obtained so far in Magnetic …

The term synaesthesia has been applied to a range of different sensory-perceptual and
cognitive experiences, yet how these experiences are related to each other is not well …