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EDGE OF NORMAL CURVE. “Another possible explanation is that synesthesia simply represents the tail end of a normal distribution of cross-modality interactions present in the general population. Partial evidence supporting this idea comes as sensory deprivation and deafferentation (i.e., loss of sensory input through the destruction of sensory nerve fibers) can lead to synesthetic-like experiences.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

INTERLINKING. “Others have argued that synesthesia is the direct result of enhanced communication between the senses as a logical outgrowth of the cross-modality interactions present in all individuals.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

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

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

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

GREATER ACCURACY. “Individuals who experience auditory sounds evoked by visual motion process rhythmic visual stimuli more accurately than controls and in a manner similar to how non-synesthetes process auditory information.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

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

MANY TOOLS AVAILABLE. "It is likely that increasingly sophisticated uses of human/animal chimeric models will be developed through advances in genetic manipulation, cell delivery, and in vivo imaging." https://lnkd.in/d3JtYvG View in LinkedIn

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