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Jamie Ward - Synesthesia |
Synesthesia has fascinated researchers for a long time. Dr. Jamie Ward from the University of Sussex, UK, has investigated a large number of synesthetes - people, who perceive the world in a different way than the average person. Synesthesia is... |
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Multisensory integration in synesthesia |
Every person's brain has to integrate information from several different senses? This multisensory perception is different from synesthesia - existing sensory information is processed together, unlike synesthetic experiences, where unrelated... |
Jamie Ward |
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Types of synesthesia |
Dr. Jamie Ward talks about different types of synesthesia and how they relate to the concept of sequences in the brain. Types of synesthesia include number and letter color, word-taste, vision-music, spatial sequences, and mirror-touch synesthesia. |
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What does it feel like to be a synesthete? |
Based on his interactions with hundreds of synesthetes, Dr. Ward describes how synesthetes view their experiences and how synesthesia affects their daily lives. |
Jamie Ward |
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What is synesthesia? |
Dr. Jamie Ward is a researcher at the University of Sussex (UK) and an expert on synesthesia. Here he explains synesthesia as having an "extra-sensation" tagged onto a commonly experienced perception. |
Jamie Ward |
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