Thursday, August 19, 2004

Weird links with words and colours in the mind

"Synaesthesia, a condition in which people make weird sensory associations, may rely more on the plasticity of the brain than on any genetic predisposition. This might mean that all of us are capable of having a synaesthetic experience."

If so, we should be able to induce synaesthetic phenomena relatively easily, via drugs or direct neural stimulation.
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