The tickle mystery and your brain's prediction engine
Synesthesia and the crossed wires of perception
The Proust effect and the scent-memory time machine
Mirror neurons and the invisible social web
mankai Mirror-touch synesthesia physically connects a person to the sensations of others
mankai Sensory cross-wiring allows grapheme-color synesthetes to see letters as colors and lexical-gustatory synesthetes to taste spoken words.
mankai The bouba-kiki effect reveals how human brains naturally cross-wire sight and sound.
mankai Sort conflicting sensory signals to discover how your brain deceives your five senses.
Colored numbers: For people with grapheme-color synesthesia, the number 5 is almost universally perceived as red, while the number 4 is often seen as blue.
A neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second pathway. In 1842, Franz Liszt famously asked his Weimar orchestra to play music a little more blue.
Approximately what percentage of the global population is estimated to experience some form of synesthesia?
What developmental process in early childhood fails to completely happen in synesthetes, leaving extra sensory connections intact?
Who was the psychologist who first demonstrated the cross-sensory mapping of shapes and sounds in 1929?
In the famous bouba-kiki experiment, what percentage of people typically match the sharp, spiky shape with the sound 'kiki'?
Which pioneering abstract artist famously painted music, treating different colors as musical chords and instruments?
Which famous Nobel Prize-winning physicist described seeing mathematical equations in distinct colors due to his synesthesia?
What is the name of the rare synesthesia type where a person physically feels the touch or pain experienced by another person?