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Imagine if every time you saw someone called Tom you got a strong taste of earwax in your mouth. It happens to William James, wh

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问题     Imagine if every time you saw someone called Tom you got a strong taste of earwax in your mouth. It happens to William James, who runs a pub. Tom is one of his regulars. Another regular’s name gives him the taste of wet nappies. For some puzzling reason, James’s sense of sound and taste are intermingled.
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    Both of them have a mysterious condition called synaesthesia(联觉), in which their senses have become linked. For years scientists dismissed it, putting it in the same category as seances(an attempt to communicate with God)and spoon-bending. But now, synaesthesia is sparking a revolution in our understanding of the human mind.
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    But despite these differences, scientists are now beginning to discover more and more overarching synaesthetic patterns among synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes.
    Dorothy doesn’t only see letters and numbers in color. Music produces a riot of color, too.
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    But surprisingly, when non-synaesthetes are asked to match colors and music, they show a similar pattern. Most of us seem to associate low notes with darker colors and high notes with brighter colors.
    The evidence of the synaesthete in all of us doesn’t end here. Scientists started to investigate how non-synaesthetes deal with numbers. They found they’re better at manipulating small numbers with their left hand, and their bigger numbers with our right hand.
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    Some scientists believe that synaesthesia might even explain how we evolved two of the traits that define our species and have transformed our world—creativity and language.
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    Some believe that our common synaesthetic abilities may also have been the springboard to language. Connections between our senses of hearing and vision, for example, could have been an important initial step towards the creation of words. Our earliest ancestors may have first started to talk by using sounds that actually evoked the object they wished to describe. According to this theory, language could have emerged from the multitude of synaesthetic connections within our brains.
[A]As Dorothy hears notes going from low to high, her colors change from black and purple to mid-browns and then yellows and whites. Overall, lower notes evoke darker colors and higher notes brighter colors—and this pattern is true for most synaesthetes.
[B]Scientists agree that synaesthesia has a genetic basis, because it frequently runs in families. But an actual synaesthesia gene(or genes)has not been identified yet.
[C]Synaesthetes have long been accused of making their experiences up. In the early 1990s, however, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University noticed that synaesthetic colors don’t change over time. If asked what color is evoked by a letter or number, synaesthetes are incredibly specific and consistent at naming it—even if tested months or even years apart. This consistency was seen as a proof that synaesthesia is real.
[D]Many famous artists have been synaesthetes—the jazz legend Miles Davis, for instance, and the painter Kandinsky. In fact, a number of studies suggest that synaesthesia may be more common among artists, poets and musicians. This has led some scientists to argue that synaesthesia and creativity may share a similar basis—that both may be down to brain processes that involve linking two seemingly unrelated areas.
[E]Two synaesthetes seldom agree on the colors or tastes they experience. It’s very unlikely to have the same taste for another synaesthete. Dorothy’s brother Peter, also a synaesthete, won’t see M or Z in the same color as she does.
[F]Dorothy Latham sees words as colors. Whenever she reads a black and white text, she sees each letter tinged in the shade of her own multi-colored alphabet—even though she knows the reality of the text is black and white. Spoken words have an even stranger effect. She sees them, spelled out letter by letter, on a colorful tickertape(纸带)in front of her head.
[G]This suggests that we all somehow think of numbers as arranged in space, just as synaesthets do, even if we’re not aware of it. More evidence, it seems, that we’re all synaesthetic to some degree. It’s just that some people experience a more exaggerated version.
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解析 此项详述多萝西对音乐的联觉反应。要是听到从低到高的音符，她眼前的色彩会从黑紫色变成浅黄，黄色直至白色。总的说来，低音符唤起深色，而高音符唤起亮色。
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