This study shows that biases exist in the associations of letters with colours across individuals both with and without grapheme-colour synaesthesia. A group of grapheme-colour synaesthetes were significantly more consistent over time in their choice of colours than a group of controls. Despite this difference, there were remarkable inter-subject agreements, both within and across participant g...

neuroscience has recently contributed a lot to the understanding of aesthetic experience features. science, art and creativity are not really distinctively different entities. the parallelism seen between the properties of art and organizational principals of the brain has been highlighted through neuroaesthetic studies. aesthetic as a subjective experience has comprehensively been studies thro...

Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is a condition characterized by atypical binding in which letters and numerals involuntarily elicit colour photisms (Ward, 2013). Previous research using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) demonstrated that synaesthetes display enhanced cortical excitability selectively in primary visual cortex (Terhune, Tai, Cowey, Popescu, & Cohen Kadosh, 2011), as measured b...

in brain areas usually associated with both the trigger sensation and the secondary sensation. For example, activation in left colour-sensitive cortex occurred in word– colour synaesthetes hearing words [14] but not in nonsynaesthetes trained to associate colour with words [15]. Many issues concerning the anatomy underlying information processing in synaesthesia remain to be elucidated but this...

Mirror-touch synaesthesia is a condition where observing touch to another's body induces a subjective tactile sensation on the synaesthetes body. The present study explores which characteristics of the inducing stimulus modulate the synaesthetic touch experience. Fourteen mirror-touch synaesthetes watched videos depicting a touch event while indicating (i) whether the video induced a tactile se...

Functionalism offers an account of the relations that hold between behavioural functions, information and neural processing, and conscious experience from which one can draw two inferences: (1) for any discriminable difference between qualia there must be an equivalent discriminable difference in function; and (2) for any discriminable functional difference within a behavioural domain associate...