title: [Synaesthesia, an augmented sensory world: phenomenology and literature review].
abstract: Synaesthetic people are probably more numerous than usually thought. This unique sensory phenomenon may concern up to 4% of the general population. Physicians are not very aware of synaesthesias because synaesthetes ignore themselves and most often consider this perceptive faculty as common and not pathological. We report in detail a grapheme-phoneme to colour developmental synaesthesia in a 54-year-old woman. The major contribution of research over the last two decades is also summarized.
authors: Service de neurologie, hôpital Delafontaine, 2, rue du Dr-Delafontaine, 93200 Saint-Denis, France. thomas.debroucker@ch-stdenis.fr
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mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000080311:Synesthesia; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology