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This journal goes into detail describing what synesthesia is, and suggests that because synesthesia is the event of one sense triggering another, that metaphor, sensory language, and in-depth descriptions could be considered as types of synesthesia.

Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia. This means that all of these aspects are woven together in his perception of the world. Through this talks he discusses what it is like to have synesthesia and how it affects his use of language in his everyday life.

"This website is part of a research project looking into the way in which people associate different vowel sounds with different colours, and whether accent has any influence on this association. In order to investigate this, we need as many people as possible to help us by completing a task online."

In a study involving synesthesia, people make good guesses at meanings of foreign words.