In many everyday situations, our senses are bombarded by many different unisensory
signals at any given time. To gain the most veridical, and least variable, estimate of …

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 …

NATIONAL BESTSELLER• With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought
to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Synesthesia, a neurological condition affecting between 0.05%–1% of the population, is
characterized by anomalous sensory perception and associated alterations in cognitive …

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 …