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Question 1

What is Synaesthesia?

Answer 1

perceptual experience in which stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers anotehr sense

Question 2

What is mirror–touch synaesthesia?

Answer 2

This is when a person sees another person being physically touched and feels a sensation replicated in their own body.

Question 3

What is auditory–tactile synaesthesia?

Answer 3

This is where certain audio cues trigger feelings on parts of the body.

Question 4

What is word–gustatory synaesthesia?

Answer 4

This is when certain words are heard they trigger certain tastes

Question 5

What is pain synaesthesia?

Answer 5

This is when an individual experiences pain when seeing another individual in pain

Question 6

What is chromesthesia?

Answer 6

This is when an individual relates certain non-visual stimuli such as sounds and tastes to different colours

Question 7

What is chromatic audition?

Answer 7

This is specific to when sounds trigger colours

Question 8

What is time–space synaesthesia?

Answer 8

This is when individuals describe periods of time as being phsyicaly around them in space (Such as: September 15th is on the left of me)

Question 9

What is a theorie as to why synaesthesia is formed?

Answer 9

Excess of neural connections that wernt pruned