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MNT: New Insight into Synesthesia
MRI and fMRI Posted by I. Valdes on Thursday March 24, @09:57PM
from the fMRI dept.
Interesting article in Medical News Today about fMRI results on people who have synesthesia, in this case the ability to 'see' colors in letters and numbers: ...In fMRI scans, the researchers found that the synesthetes showed greater activation in a color-perception region of the cortex when viewing graphemes, compared to normal control subjects. The researchers found that the strength of this activation influences the strength of the synesthetic colors. In fMRI, harmless radio waves and magnetic fields are used to map regions of higher blood flow in the brain, which reflects higher activity in those regions...

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