SIO463: Synesthesia - How Does It Work?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Janessa Seymour is back! This time she teaches us all about synesthesia. How does it work? How many people have it? Are they just faking it? How do we test for it?
This episode features one of the most mind-blowing things I've ever heard on this show. I really enjoyed this one!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 463 I'm your host |
| 0:20.5 | Thomas Smith and I am again so excited for this episode. |
| 0:24.4 | We're back with Dr. Janessa Seymour and we're going to be talking about she's |
| 0:29.2 | going to teach us all about synesthesia. That's something I'm sure most people are loosely |
| 0:33.7 | familiar with. Different senses activating or triggering when you wouldn't think they |
| 0:38.4 | would. Seeing colors with letters, seeing colors with music, all kinds of combinations. |
| 0:45.0 | She teaches us all about it and this is so fascinating. |
| 0:48.4 | Seriously, Janessa goes through something in this interview that I'm still thinking about and that blows my mind so much. |
| 0:53.8 | I cannot wait for you to hear it. |
| 0:54.8 | It is so cool. |
| 0:55.8 | And it was so cool that this extended into two parts and it is, trust me, it is worth it. |
| 1:00.3 | Like I loved doing this interview and learning more about |
| 1:03.4 | Synesthesia and it's a topic that Janessa is passionate about too and has |
| 1:07.2 | studied a lot. She's a PhD in neuroscience by the way in case you didn't |
| 1:11.2 | remember and this is in particular something she's looked at a lot and it is so |
| 1:16.2 | Interesting I can't wait for you to hear the thing that has been mind-blowing and stuck with me through this entire time until now. |
| 1:23.0 | And so let's just get to it. |
| 1:24.6 | After this break, we'll get to Janessa. |
| 1:26.8 | Please support the show, lose the ads and all that |
| 1:29.2 | at Patreon.com slash serious pod. |
| 1:31.0 | It means a lot, it's really important. Please do so and after this we'll be on with |
| 1:34.7 | Janessa about synesthesia and Janessa welcome back to the show. |
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