🔬 Science Mar 31, 2026 · Richard E. Cytowic

The neuroscience behind synesthesia

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For most people, Tuesday is just the name of a weekday. For 1 in 23 people, Tuesday is also brown, tilted to the left, and tastes metallic. Neurologist Richard Cytowic has spent decades studying synesthesia, the phenomenon where one sense involuntarily triggers another. 
Cytowic makes the case that the cross-wiring synesthetes experience is present in every human brain, just quieter.

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