Synesthesia and the Excitable Brain

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By Elizabeth Preston
Nov 18, 2011 2:45 PMNov 5, 2019 9:35 AM

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To people whose sensory perceptions stay quietly inside their own sandboxes instead of coming out to play with each other, it will come as no surprise that synesthetes--people who experience letters with colors, or sounds with tastes--have something paradoxical going on in their brains.

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