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The cognitive benefits of time-space synaesthesia
S YNAESTHESIA is a neurological condition in which there is a merging of the senses, so that activity in one sensory modality elicits sensations in another. Although first described by Francis Galton in the 1880s, little was known about this condition until recently. A rennaissance in ...
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Dyslexia and the Cocktail Party effect
IMAGINE sitting in a noisy restaurant, across the table from a friend, and having a conversation with them as you eat your meal. To communicate effectively in this situation, you have to extract the relevant information from the noise in the background, as well as from other voices. To do so, ...
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The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause
A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, reveals something of the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggest that the ...
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