Do people experience different realities?

Do you see blue the same way I do on the inside? Why do some people think the northern lights make noise? Why do you think the low note on the piano is larger, and the high note brighter? Join Eagleman on a wild ride into the world of synesthesia, a topic his neuroscience laboratory has pioneered for years.

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Cytowic, RE, Eagleman DM (2009). Wednesday is indigo blue: Discovering the brain of synesthesia. MIT Press.

Eagleman DM, Kagan AD, Nelson SN, Sagaram D, Sarma AK (2007). A standardized test battery for the study of Synesthesia. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 159: 139-145.

Eagleman DM & Goodale MA (2009). Why color synesthesia involves more than color. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(7): 288-292.

Eagleman DM (2009). The objectification of overlearned sequences: A large-scale analysis of spatial sequence synesthesia. Cortex. 45(10): 1266-1277.

Novich SD, Cheng S, Eagleman DM (2011). Is synesthesia one condition or many? A large-scale analysis reveals subgroups. Journal of Neuropsychology. 5:353-371.

Eagleman DM (2012). Synesthesia in its protean guises. British Journal of Psychology. 103(1):16-19.

Sverdrup HU. Audibility of the aurora polaris. Nature. 1931 Sep 12;128(3228):457-.

Garber CM. On the audibility of the aurora borealis. Science. 1933 Sep 8;78(2019):213-4.

Witthoft N, Winawer J, Eagleman DM. Prevalence of learned grapheme-color pairings in a large online sample of synesthetes. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 4;10(3):e0118996.

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