New brain exercises teach people to see letters as colours

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 01:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists have taught people to experience synaesthesia, a neurological phenomenon that causes the senses to be ‘mixed’. After participating in a nine-week brain-training course, volunteers were able to see letters and numbers as colours as they went about their daily lives. 

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