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Synaesthesia as a Model System for Understanding Variation in the Human Mind and Brain

2020-12-10

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<p>The aim of this article is to reposition synaesthesia as model system for understanding variation in the construction of the human mind and brain. People with synaesthesia inhabit a remarkable mental world in which numbers can be coloured, words can have tastes, and music is a visual spectacle. Synaesthesia has now been documented for over two hundred years but key questions remain unanswered about why it exist...

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Literature Corpus work: 4586a1ce-2fbd-510e-91bf-d71979bebf3a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/87fuj

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