Title of paper under discussion When coloured sounds taste sweet Authors Gian Beeli, Michaela Esslen and Lutz Jäncke Journal Nature, 434, 38 (2005) Link to paper (free access) Overview Written up in 2005, this ‘short communication’ to the journal Nature describes a professional musician who cannot help sensing tastes on her tongue when she hears …
Title of paper under discussion Automaticity of pitch class-color synesthesia as revealed by a Stroop-like effect Authors Kosuke Itoh, Honami Sakata, Hironaka Igarashi, Tsutomu Nakada Journal Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 71, May 2019, Pages 86-91 Link to original paper (open access) Overview Synaesthesia is a merging of senses that aren’t normally connected, whereby the stimulation …
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