People can feel the taste of numbers, smell and hear the words of color

There are people whose cognitive pathways confused. These people irritation of sensory organ, along with specific calls for his feelings and sensations that correspond to other organs. This deviation is called "synesthesia».

One of the most common forms of synesthesia, in which letters and numbers are always linked to specific shades of color, is a so-called grapheme. There is still no precise information about the cause of this strange phenomenon and its manifestations. Researchers from Stanford communicated online with eleven such synaesthetes - all these people were strikingly similar color associations with letters. Ten of eleven surveyed remembered that the earlier (1970-80 years) have been colored magnets on the refrigerator in the form of letters of the alphabet.





During further questioning revealed that the vast majority of synesthetes see the letter, and red - the colors were just such a popular magnets on the refrigerator in the form of the letter A. Others synesthetes could recall that once a letter is often seen that color, which "tied "in their brains to the letter is now - for example, in the beloved children's book, where the first letter of the head could be green or brown.

It is believed that all forms of synesthesia originate from children's associations and of various forms of cultural influence. However, to come to some reasonable conclusion, you will need much more research.

via factroom.ru