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January 15, 2010

Beyond crossed senses in synaesthesia

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Cognitive Daily covers a super-elegant study that helps us understand whether synaesthesia is really just a case of 'crossed senses' or whether the perceptual blending effect requires the person to have processed some of the meaning of the triggering experience.The traditional explanation of most types of synaesthesia is that the brain's sensory areas are overly connected, so activation of one se

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