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  2. Synesthesia in literature - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which one or more sensory modalities become linked. However, for over a century, synesthesia has also been the artistic and poetic devices that try to connect the senses. Not all depictions of synesthesia in the fictional works are accurate.

  3. Synesthesia in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In a scene in the anime Zankyou no Terror, the main character Twelve tells Lisa that he has synesthesia and can "see colors in sounds", using the color of her voice as pale yellow, as an example. In Season 2, Episode 4 of The Listener, synesthesia is a brief topic of dissuasion in the start of the episode.

  4. List of people with synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Following that, there is a list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had synesthesia because they used it as a device in their art, poetry or music (referred to as pseudo-synesthetes). Estimates of prevalence of synesthesia have ranged widely, from 1 in 4 to 1 in 25,000 – 100,000.

  5. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Women have a higher chance of developing synesthesia, as demonstrated in population studies conducted in the city of Cambridge, England where females were 6 times more likely to have it. [53] As technological equipment continues to advance, the search for clearer answers regarding the genetics behind synesthesia will become more promising.

  6. Synaesthesia (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that, in the tradition of Romantic poetry, the sensory transfer consisting in the synaesthesic metaphor tends to be from a lower (less differentiated) sense to a higher sense. In this respect, the sequence of senses from low to high is generally taken to be touch, taste, smell, sound, then sight. [ 4 ]

  7. Exceptional memory - Wikipedia

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    Exceptional memory is the ability to have accurate and detailed recall in a variety of ways, including hyperthymesia, eidetic memory, synesthesia, and emotional memory. Exceptional memory is also prevalent in those with savant syndrome and mnemonists .

  8. Chromesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia is a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape, and movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Individuals with sound-color synesthesia are consciously aware of their synesthetic color associations/ perceptions in daily life. [ 3 ]

  9. Patricia Lynne Duffy - Wikipedia

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    Patricia Lynne Duffy is the author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds, the first book by a synesthete about synesthesia. [1] Blue Cats has been reviewed in both the popular press as well as in academic journals, Cerebrum and the APA Review of Books .