L Mottron, L Bouvet, A Bonnel, F Samson… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Superior perception, peaks of ability, and savant skills are often observed in the autistic
phenotype. The enhanced perceptual functioning model (Mottron et al., 2006a) emphasizes …

Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism

J Ward, C Hoadley, JEA Hughes, P Smith, C Allison… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Several studies have suggested that there is a link between synaesthesia and autism but the
nature of that link remains poorly characterised. The present study considers whether …

Survival of the synesthesia gene: Why do people hear colors and taste words?

D Brang, VS Ramachandran - PLoS biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Synesthesia is a perceptual experience in which stimuli presented through one modality will
spontaneously evoke sensations in an unrelated modality. The condition occurs from …

Explaining mirror-touch synesthesia

J Ward, MJ Banissy - Cognitive neuroscience, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Mirror-touch synesthesia (MTS) is the conscious experience of tactile sensations induced by
seeing someone else touched. This paper considers two different, although not mutually …

Synaesthesia and autism: Different developmental outcomes from overlap** mechanisms?

TM Van Leeuwen, J Neufeld, J Hughes… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Synaesthesia, a mixing of the senses, is more common in individuals with autism. Here, we
review the evidence for the association between synaesthesia and autism with regard to …

Is synesthesia more common in patients with Asperger syndrome?

J Neufeld, M Roy, A Zapf, C Sinke… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing evidence from case reports that synesthesia is more common in
individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). Further, genes related to synesthesia …

Enhanced cortical excitability in grapheme-color synesthesia and its modulation

DB Terhune, S Tai, A Cowey, T Popescu, RC Kadosh - Current Biology, 2011 - cell.com
Synesthesia is an unusual condition characterized by the over-binding of two or more
features and the concomitant automatic and conscious experience of atypical, ancillary …