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

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 …

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving
through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to'look …

Ineffability, the degree to which percepts or concepts resist linguistic coding, is a fairly
unexplored nook of cognitive science. Although philosophical preoccupations with qualia or …

Simulated reality encompasses virtual, augmented, and mixed realities—each characterized
by different degrees of truthfulness in the visual perception:“all false,”“coexistence of true …

In the past decade, remarkable progress has been made in the domain of augmented
reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). The need for realistic and immersive augmentation has …

Little is known about how the properties of our private mental world relate to the physical
and functional properties of our brain. Studying synesthesia, where a particular experience …

While researchers have long pondered over the nature (and even the very existence) of
visual mental imagery, it is only in the last few decades or so that serious scientific research …

We show that the neurological condition of synaesthesia—which causes fundamental
differences in perception and cognition throughout a lifetime—is significantly represented …

Reading acquisition is enabled by deep changes in the brain's visual system and language
areas, and in the links subtending their collaboration. Disruption of those plastic processes …