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Synaesthesia: A Case Study of Discordant Monozygotic Twins

Abstract

We describe a study of 11-year-old twin sisters who are physically identical in appearance but who have considerably different conscious experiences. One twin appears to be a synaesthete in that she states that she has specific colour experiences (i.e. photisms) whenever she views, hears or thinks of digits. The other twin does not report such conscious experiences when viewing, hearing or thinking about digits. A genotypic analysis using eight …

Authors

Smilek D; Moffatt BA; Pasternak J; White BN; Dixon MJ; Merikle PM

Journal

Neurocase, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 338–342

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

10 2002

DOI

10.1076/neur.8.3.338.16194

ISSN

1355-4794