The Merit of Synesthesia for Consciousness Research
Frontiers in Psychology December 2, 2015 T. V. van Leeuwen, W. Singer, D. Nikolić
Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which additional perceptual experiences are elicited by sensory stimuli or cognitive concepts. Synesthetes possess a unique type of phenomenal experiences not directly triggered by sensory stimulation. Therefore, for better understanding of consciousness it is relevant to identify the mental and physiological processes that subserve synesthetic experience. In the...