In the first long-term study on grapheme-color synesthesia, researchers followed 80 children, including 8 synesthetes, to determine when and how associations between graphemes and colors develop. What ...

Synesthesia is a condition in which certain stimuli (for example, hearing particular music) trigger an unusual additional sensory experience (for example, seeing metallic green). The associations are ...

Previous studies report that learning new words is helped when supplemented with written forms, but only if grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) mappings are the same (congruent) as the learners’ ...