Synesthésies, un monde sensoriel augmenté : phénoménologie et revue de la littérature

Synaesthetic people are probably more numerous than usually thought. This unique sensory phenomenon may concern up to 4% of the general population. Physicians are not very aware of synaesthesias because synaesthetes ignore themselves and most often consider this perceptive faculty as common and not pathological. We report in detail a grapheme-phoneme to colour developmental synaesthesia in a 54-year-old woman. The major contribution of research over the last two decades is also summarized.