Proposed causes for Synesthesia
- Research by Simon Baron-Cohen suggests that synesthesia results from an overabundance of neural connections.
- Peter Grossenbacher thinks it happens when single-sense areas of the brain get feedback from multisensory regions and not from a usual single-sense area.
- Daphne Maurer proposed that everyone has these connections, but not everyone uses them.
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