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Synaesthesia: a case study of discordant monozygotic twins.

Neurocase - 1 Jan 2002

Smilek D, Moffatt B A, Pasternak J, White B N, Dixon M J, Merikle P M

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We describe a study of 11-year-old twin sisters who are physically identical in appearance but who have considerably different conscious experiences. One twin appears to be a synaesthete in that she states that she has specific colour experiences (i.e. photisms) whenever she views, hears or think...

Topics

Child
Color
Consciousness
Female
Genotype
Hallucinations
Humans
Twins, Monozygotic
Visual Perception
X Chromosome

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PMID: 12221147
DOI: 10.1076/neur.8.3.338.16194

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