Survival of the Synesthesia Gene: Why Do People Hear Colors and Taste Words?

This Unsolved Mystery reviews the biological evidence for why synesthesia, a condition in which stimuli presented through one modality spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality, may have been conserved in the population.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2011-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001205PMID 22131906PMCID 3222625
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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