Normal perception involves experiencing objects within perceptual scenes as real, as
existing in the world. This property of “perceptual presence” has motivated “sensorimotor …

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 …

Objective We aim to elucidate misophonia, a condition in which particular sounds elicit
disproportionally strong aversive reactions. Method A large online study extensively …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

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 …

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our
traditional view of the brain. A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her …

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 …

Approximate processing of numerosities is a universal and preverbal skill, while exact
number processing above 4 involves the use of culturally acquired number words and …

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 …