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  1. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

    People with synesthesia are referred to as synesthetes.

  2. Synesthesia: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms, Types & Treatment

    Synesthesia is when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously. Some examples include …

  3. Synesthesia | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

    Dec 6, 2025 · Contemporary models agree that synesthesia involves communication between regions of the cerebral cortex in the brain that are not otherwise connected in nonsynesthetes.

  4. Synesthesia - Psychology Today

    Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or...

  5. What Is Synesthesia? Definition and Types - ThoughtCo

    Apr 29, 2025 · Synesthesia is a perception in which stimulating one sensory or cognitive pathway causes experiences in another sense or cognitive pathway. In other words, a sense or concept …

  6. About synaesthesia (updated FAQs) | The MULTISENSE Synaesthesia

    There are many different types of synaesthesia and other examples include seeing time mapped out in space (e.g., seeing the months of the year laid out in an oval shape), feeling touch in the …

  7. What is synaesthesia? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

    Jun 15, 2022 · Approximately 4 per cent of people experience some type of synaesthesia. Synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon where stimulation of one sense triggers …

  8. Synesthesia: Definition, Symptoms, & Causes - Choosing Therapy

    Mar 5, 2024 · Synesthesia is when one or more sensory experiences are experienced at the same time in response to a trigger for only one sensory experience. You may hear music that …

  9. Neurophenomenology of induced and natural synaesthesia - PMC

    Synaesthesia is defined by the presence of additional perceptual experiences, which are automatically and consistently triggered by specific inducing stimuli [1]. For example, in …

  10. FAQ : Synaesthesia research : University of Sussex

    Q.7 Can synaesthesia occur for touch and other bodily sensations? Yes, it was once thought to be very rare but we now think it is one of the most common types of synaesthesia.