linkedin post 2020-02-23 07:14:18

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ADDITIVE. “In addition to facilitating processes in individual sensory modalities, synesthetes also show increased communication between the senses unrelated to their synesthetic experiences, suggesting that benefits from synesthesia generalize to other modalities as well, supporting their ability to process multisensory information.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-02-23 07:12:15

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EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE. “These demonstrations of enhanced processing of sensory information suggest a provocative evolutionary hypothesis for synesthesia: synesthetic experiences may serve as cognitive and perceptual anchors to aid in the detection, processing, and retention of critical stimuli in the world; in terms of memory benefits, these links are akin to a method of loci association.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-02-25 04:59:23

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TRANSIENT MONKEY SUCCESS. "Only one brain transplant was conducted by neurosurgeon Robert J. White; he grafted the head of a monkey onto the headless body of another monkey. EEG readings showed the brain was later functioning normally. It was thought to prove that the brain was an immunologically privileged organ, as the host's immune system did not attack it at first, but immunorejection caused the monkey to die after nine days." https://lnkd.in/dPaEvxf View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-02-23 07:09:34

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ENHANCED ACUITY. “Confirming these sensory enhancements in a different form of the condition, Banissy and colleagues demonstrated that mirror-touch synesthetes (individuals who experience tactile sensations on their own body while watching someone else being touched) possess increased tactile acuity.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-02-23 07:08:05

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INCREASED PROCESSING. “These early perceptual effects suggest that synesthesia is associated with increased processing of color information; however, it remains possible that these differences in color processing are not due to synesthesia itself but are merely caused by synesthetes' excessive experience with colors.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-02-24 07:12:38

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NEW FRONTIER. "Recent studies have found a wide range of therapeutic applications for human amniotic membrane and amniotic fluid stem cells. Among these are the promotion of reepithelization, the modulation of cell differentiation and formation of new vessels, and a reduction in fibrosis, apoptosis, and inflammation." https://lnkd.in/dfg6Ja2 View in LinkedIn
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