Synthesia psychology
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So experiencing colors when you are reading words, looking at numbers, listening to music, and then perhaps more obscurely, swimming. And I think for that reason, we tend to think of the most common types of synesthesia as being the ones that trigger unusual color perceptions. Simner: So it's quite hard to estimate exactly how many types of synesthesia there are because some could be quite well hidden, but the ones we know most about are the ones that people can realize most readily and report to us most easily. What types are out there? What are the differences and the commonalities? And you've written and tested for 128 different types. But synesthesia is a lot more varied than people may realize. Mills: Some of our listeners have probably heard of synesthesia, or at least the most common forms of it like people seeing colors when they hear music. Julia Simner, PhD: Thanks very much for the invitation. We'll discuss those today too and talk about what links these threads of research together. She also researches other sensory differences, including misophonia, an extreme aversion to certain sounds, and aphantasia, the inability to see pictures in your mind's eye.
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She has studied synesthesia in adults and children for nearly two decades. Julia Simner, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom who specializes in multisensory research. Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. So what is it like to have synesthesia? What might cause it? And how do the brains of people with synesthesia differ from those of people without it? What can we learn the human mind more generally from studying this phenomenon and other sensory differences? But it's only in recent decades that scientists have been able to use brain imaging and other modern research methods to gain a better understanding of how synesthesia works and why it might occur. Historical accounts of people with synesthesia date back hundreds of years. These are all forms of synesthesia, the neurological condition in which senses such as taste, touch, smell and vision link or merge.
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Numbers that come with personalities and full life stories. Music that projects brilliant shimmering colors. Kim Mills: Words that taste like orange candy.