ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2015
A critical review of the neuroimaging literature on synesthesia.
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- Awareness and self-reported synesthesia related experiences among undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study.BMC neuroscience · 2026Article
- From multisensory integration to synaesthesia: a boundary-preserving continuum and research framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associating (dis)consonance of harmonic intervals with emotional valences: exploring the visual representation of music through crossmodal associations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Acoustic features of instrumental movie soundtracks elicit distinct and mostly non-overlapping extra-musical meanings in the mind of the listener.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unusual case of topiramate-induced auditory-visual synaesthesia in a non-synaesthete young adult: a case report.AME case reports · 2025Article
- Synesthesia is linked to large and extensive differences in brain structure and function as determined by whole-brain biomarkers derived from the HCP (Human Connectome Project) cortical parcellation approach.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Brain circuits in autonomous sensory meridian response and related phenomena.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Neuroimaging to Facilitate Clinical Trials in Huntington's Disease: Current Opinion from the EHDN Imaging Working Group.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2024Review
- Investigation of the relationship between neuroplasticity and grapheme-color synesthesia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- An Open Science MRI Database of over 100 Synaesthetic Brains and Accompanying Deep Phenotypic Information.Scientific data · 2023Article
- A single case neuroimaging study of tickertape synesthesia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Synesthesia has specific cognitive processing during Go/No-go paradigms.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Temporal dissociation of neural activity underlying synesthetic and perceptual colors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Sharing the load: How a personally coloured calculator for grapheme-colour synaesthetes can reduce processing costs.PloS one · 2021Article
- "Mickey Mousing" in the Brain: Motion-Sound Synesthesia and the Subcortical Substrate of Audio-Visual Integration.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- A case of co-occuring synesthesia, autism, prodigious talent and strong structural brain connectivity.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Anti-PDHA1 antibody is detected in a subset of patients with schizophrenia.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Reduced perceptual narrowing in synesthesia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Synaesthesia: a distinct entity that is an emergent feature of adaptive neurocognitive differences.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Synesthesia refers to additional sensations experienced by some people for specific stimulations, such as the systematic arbitrary association of colors to letters for the most studied type. Here, we review all the studies (based mostly on functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging) that have searched for the neural correlates of this subjective experience, as well as structural differences related to synesthesia. Most differences claimed for synesthetes are unsupported, due mainly to low statistical power, statistical errors, and methodological limitations. Our critical review therefore casts some doubts on whether any neural correlate of the synesthetic experience has been established yet. Rather than being a neurological condition (i.e., a structural or functional brain anomaly), synesthesia could be reconsidered as a special kind of childhood memory, whose signature in the brain may be out of reach with present brain imaging techniques.
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