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 …

Superior perception, peaks of ability, and savant skills are often observed in the autistic
phenotype. The enhanced perceptual functioning model (Mottron et al., 2006a) emphasizes …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

In the troubled times in which we currently live, the tourism industry has called into question
a need for more responsible social practices and more mindful utilisation of natural …

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 …

Olfactory experiences represent a domain that is particularly rich in crossmodal
associations. Whereas associations between odors and tastes, or other properties of their …

Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists
and artists alike. This inherited condition gives rise to a kind of'merging of the senses', and …

People with synaesthesia show an enhanced memory relative to demographically matched
controls. The most obvious explanation for this is that the 'extra'perceptual experiences lead …

Several studies have suggested that there is a link between synaesthesia and autism but the
nature of that link remains poorly characterised. The present study considers whether …

The most commonly used method for formally assessing grapheme-colour synaesthesia (ie,
experiencing colours in response to letter and/or number stimuli) involves selecting colours …