ScienceHow does your name taste? The strange science of synaesthesia

Greek jewellery designer Constantina Makridakis has always experienced names and voices as tastes, later discovering this was synaesthesia. Researchers say the phenomenon may involve extra connections between sensory regions of the brain; an estimated 2 to 4 percent of people experience some form of it, though many do not realise it.

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