We showed a grapheme-color synesthete three different examples of stimuli in which the graphemes were ‘hidden’—as in puzzle pictures—and became visible as letters only after prolonged viewing. Intriguingly the subject saw the appropriate colors accurately long before the graphemes became consciously visible—a novel form of blindsight.
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