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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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Sinestesia - What's the Prevalence in the Population?

How common is cenesthesia and what's the prevalence in the population? Do we know why? Yes. So this is something i've spent quite a lot of the last 20 years looking into. I'm our first estimates for common were based on am asking sinestets to come forward. Since then, i have individually screened almost 20 thousand people for sinestesia. And from that, we have quite a good idea that sinestesIA is at least point four % in the population. But you might want to question whether numbers mapped out in space, whether time out in space,. is a cinestesia - because ten percent of the population experiencing that makes us start

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