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Tasty words, colorful sounds: How people with synesthesia experience the world, with Julia Simner, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Synestesia and Other Sensory Differences

In addition to senesthesia, you study a variety of other brain and sensory differences. For example, as earlier, a missiphonia, which is an extreme aversion to specific sounds. An afantasia, which is the inability to picture things in your mind's eye. These seem like really desperate concepts, but how do they tie together? Yes, that's a really good question. So let me change cures a little because I found myself working in sinecese for a couple of decades before i came across sinestesia. And then finding out overtime that these different conditions are tied by a kind of invisible thread. All of them are sensory differences, and they all share certain

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