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ENHANCED PERCEPTION. “Outside the realm of memory research there is accumulating evidence of enhanced sensory processing in synesthesia as well. Specifically, grapheme-color synesthetes show enhanced detection of colors on a perceptually low-level visual test of parvocellular processing paralleled by the finding of differences in early visual processes to simple colors using visual-evoked potentials well before the time period in the brain in which synesthesia engages.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

REPAIR HOPES. "We characterize the survival, migration, and differentiation of human neurospheres derived from CNS stem cells transplanted into the ischemic cortex of rats...transplanted human CNS (hCNS)-derived neurospheres survived robustly in naive and ischemic brains." https://lnkd.in/dUpGPqf View in LinkedIn

IMPROVED MEMORY. “Such cases have led to the suggestion that synesthesia may exist as a foundation for savantism, and while Tammet and S are at the extreme end of the spectrum, synesthetes as a group also have demonstrated improved memories relative to controls, particularly for items related to their synesthetic experiences (e.g., memory for phone numbers is aided by number-color associations).” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

MEMORY SAVANTS. “Daniel Tammet used his synesthesia to memorize pi to 22,514 digits and Luria described an individual (“S”) with a prodigious memory based largely on using synesthetic associations evoked by the items to be memorized. “ https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

SAVANTS. “Recently, research has confirmed numerous cognitive and perceptual benefits that are associated with synesthesia, any of which could be argued to produce a stronger basis for selection. As extreme examples of these benefits, two well-characterized savants have demonstrated remarkable memory abilities based on their synesthesias.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

CREATIVE LINK UNCERTAIN. “While the link between synesthesia and creativity has received remarkable interest over the last decade, research has not yet directly demonstrated any causal relationship between the two and so the argument, at this point, remains seductive and compelling but not conclusive.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

LIFE ENHANCING. “Subjectively, synesthetes report these experiences are largely positive and engender facilitative benefits for creative aspects of their lives. Studies have indeed confirmed the increased incidence of synesthesia among artists and, relative to controls, synesthetes report spending more time engaged in creative activities.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

PHARMACOLOGIC. “Long-standing evidence has also demonstrated that hallucinogenic drugs can cause synesthesia-like experiences, suggesting the neural mechanism is present in all or many individuals but is merely suppressed.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

COMPENSATION. “For example, after early visual deprivation due to retinitis pigmentosa, touch stimuli can produce visual phosphenes, and after loss of tactile sensation from a thalamic lesion, sounds can elicit touch sensations. More remarkably, arm amputees experience touch in the phantom limb merely by watching another person's hand being touched.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn