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The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Synesthesia

A lot of people with synesthesia don't realise they have it for many years. They're able to function in the world just like everybody else and so there's no reason they should be perceiving things any differently than anyone else. We tend to study one of the more common forms of synesthesia which is graphing colourSynesthet can actually test their experience by picking from a big colour palette. If you are actually synesthetic and you really do have these experiences, then you'll get very close because you'll just pick the colour until it reflects what's going on in your mind. And that's difficult or impossible to fake.

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