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Phantoms in the Brain

The Reith Lectures

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Synesthetes Are Not Just Crazy, They're Just Faking It

The phenomenon was described by Galton a hundred years ago. The person genuinely sees red when he sees five, not just imagination or memory. So it's a clinical test for discovering synesthetes. If you've shown that this phenomenon is real, we in La Jolla, as well as Jeffrey Gray and Mike Morgan and others here in London have done experiments to test the idea there's actual cross-wiring in the brain.

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