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What’s It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?

By Alissa Greenberg — 2016

Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Is Synesthesia a Brain Disorder?

In a provocative review paper, French neuroscientists Jean-Michel Hupé and Michel Dojat question the assumption that synesthesia is a neurological disorder.

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Neuroskeptic
2015
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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

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Sidney Perkowitz
2021
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How We All Could Benefit from Synaesthesia

Developing the mysterious condition in the 96% of people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age

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Helen Massy-Beresford
2014
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Variation is the Stuff of Life. So Why Can it Make us Uncomfortable?

Embracing difference is vital for our success as a species, but it places extra demands on the brain. Here’s how to get better at it.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2021
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Your Brain Predicts (Almost) Everything You Do

Cutting-edge neuroscience shows that your brain isn’t built for thinking—it’s made to predict your reality, and you have more power over that perception than you might think.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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We Have More than Five Senses. A Neuroscientist Explains the Hidden Abilities We Often Overlook

Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett delves into the different ways we’re able to perceive the world that go beyond sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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Put Your Intuition to Use

“People treat intuition like it’s a dirty word, but it’s actually one of the body’s survival mechanisms,” says Dr. Antoine Bechara.

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Sarah Mahoney
2011
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Buried by Bad Decisions

Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.

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Daniel Gilbert
2011
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Reality Is Not What It Seems—And Neither Are You!

The world we perceive comes as much from the inside-out, as from the outside-in.

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Anil Seth
2019
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Catching Sight of Your Self

Perception as the key to who we are

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Anil Seth
2020
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