Synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3081, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Now a new form of synesthesia has been discovered--one that moves beyond written language to sign language. In theory, any two senses can overlap. People with synesthesia experience the ordinary world in extraordinary ways, says Jamie Ward, a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex in the UK. Some synesthetes connect textures with words, but more commonly, written letters seem to have corresponding colors. An individual synesthete may always associate the letter A with the color pink, for instance. This type of synesthesia has been found across many written languages, prompting Ward's team to wonder if it can also apply to sign language.