Seeing speech: The cerebral substrate of tickertape synesthesia

<p>We report the first functional MRI study of a tickertape synesthete. These synesthetes were described by Galton as &quot;persons [who] see mentally in print every word that is uttered and they read them off usually as from a long imaginary strip of paper&quot;.</p> <p>Our synesthete and 35 other non-synesthetes controls were presented different auditory stimuli. We performed univariate and multivariate analysis, as dynamic causal modelling for the synesthete.</p>