Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of
qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual …

What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic
definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …

What makes you the way you are—and what makes each of us different from everyone else?
In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

Like us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through
their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity …

In this report, the phenomenology of two blind users of a sensory substitution device–“The
vOICe”–that converts visual images to auditory signals is described. The users both report …

Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both
positive and negative emotions. The smell or taste of a long forgotten sweet can stimulate a …

As author Bennett Schwartz says in Memory: Foundations and Applications, it is hard to
imagine an aspect of psychology more fundamental than memory. This unique text covers …