Synesthesia or specific cognitive traits allow individuals to visually experience numbers and mathematical concepts

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Evidence indicates that specific cognitive conditions like synesthesia allow individuals to automatically experience numbers and mathematical concepts through associated sensory modalities such as color.

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The provided papers (specifically papers 3 and 4) directly investigate grapheme-color synesthesia and demonstrate how numerical and mathematical information is processed or accessed via associated color experiences. The papers support the claim that synesthesia and related cognitive associations link numerical concepts with visual experiences.

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Components of Attention in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: A Modeling Approach

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Á. Ásgeirsson, M. Nordfang, T. Sørensen. Components of Attention in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: A Modeling Approach. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134456

Demonstrates that grapheme-color synesthesia directly affects the perceptual processing speed and short-term memory capacity of visually presented numbers and letters.

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Two plus blue equals green: Grapheme-color synesthesia allows cognitive access to numerical information via color

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J. Daniel McCarthy, Lianne Barnes, Bryan D. Alvarez, G. Caplovitz. Two plus blue equals green: Grapheme-color synesthesia allows cognitive access to numerical information via color. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.005

Shows that synesthetes can cognitively access numerical information elicited by physical colors as accurately as with graphemes.

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