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1Department of Neurology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.
Abstract:
Synaesthesia is the intriguing, involuntary experience of feeling one sensation in response to a different sensory stimulus. Recognised since described in 1890 by John Locke and clarified by Galton in the 1880s, it has been analysed in the last 50 years. Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is the commonest form, but many other sensory linkages are reported. Experiments show that it is a genuine immediate perception, not merely a memory or learned association. Many of the mechanisms posited are based on indirect methods, and we know little of the neurophysiological mechanisms.
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