Tasty words, colorful sounds: How people with synesthesia experience the world, with Julia Simner, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Do You Have Cynesthesia?
Even though most people do not have cynesthesia, they do have cross sensory experiences. For example, associating higher pitched tones with brighter colors. People systematically associate the pitch of music with colours in several ways. Higher pitch sound maps to more luminant colours. And here's something quite fun, we have recently been looking at the same phenomenon in dogs. So this shows associations between, on the one hand, sound, and on the other hand, the visual property of size or elevation in space. That's om really exciting work too, to conduct.
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