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Encore - 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 Cynesis?

Even though most people do not have cynesthesia, they do have cross sensory experiences or associations. For example, associating higher pitched tones with brighter colors. People also 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. We findis hat they are much more likely to target the small object when the sound is high pitched and the large object when thesound is low pitchd. So this shows associations between, on the one hand, sound, and visual property of size, or the visual property of elevation in space. That's some really exciting work

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