The Rare Humans Who See Time & Have Amazing Memories

It's called time-space synesthesia, and it's caused by extra neural connections.

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By Smriti Rao
Apr 2, 2010 4:44 PMApr 17, 2023 8:36 PM
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The “normal” form of the condition called synesthesia is weird enough: For people with this condition, sensory information gets mixed in the brain causing them to see sounds, taste colors, or perceive numbers as having particular hues.

But psychologist David Brang is studying a bunch of people with an even odder form of synesthesia: These people can literally “see time.”

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