TYPES OF SYNAESTHESIAE  Of 695 cases, 495 (71%) are female, 200 (29%) male.

                                                     Of 738 cases, 358 (49%) have multiple synaesthesiae.

There are at least 39 types of synaesthesia:
 
Graphemes -> Color
= 497/738
= 67.3%
Time Units -> Color
= 174/738
= 23.6%
Mus. Sounds -> Color
=  138/738
= 18.7%
Gen. Sounds -> Color
= 110/738
= 14.9%
Phonemes -> Color
=  76/738
= 10.3%
Mus. Notes -> Color
=  74/738
= 10.0%
Odors -> Color
=  50/738
=  6.8%
Tastes -> Color
=  48/738
=  6.5%
Pain -> Color
=  44/738
=  6.0%
Personalities -> Color
=  42/738
=  5.7%
Touch -> Color
=  29/738
=  3.9%
Temperatures -> Color
=  19/738
=  2.6%
Orgasms -> Color
=  7/738
=  0.9%
Emotion -> Color
=   5/738
=  0.7%
Kinetics -> syn. Sound
=  3/738
=  0.4%
Person -> syn. Smell
=   3/738
=  0.4%
Personality -> syn. Touch
=  1/738
=  0.1%
Smell -> syn. Sound
=   4/738
=  0.5%
Smell -> syn. Taste
=  1/738
=  0.1%
Smell -> syn. Temp.
=  1/738
=  0.1%
Smell -> syn. Touch
=   5/738
=  0.7%
Sound -> Kinetics
=  4/738
=  0.5%
Sound -> syn. Smell
=   13/738
=  1.8%
Sound -> syn. Taste
=  45/738
=  6.1%
Sound -> syn. Temp.
=   4/738
=  0.5%
Sound -> syn. Touch
=  29/738
=  3.9%
Taste -> syn. Sound
=   1/738
=  0.1%
Taste -> syn. Temp.
=   1/738
=  0.1%
Taste -> syn. Touch
=   4/738
=  0.5%
Temp. -> syn. Sound
=   1/738
=  0.1%
Touch -> syn. Smell
=   2/738
=  0.3%
Touch -> syn. Sound
=   3/738
=  0.4%
Touch -> syn. Taste
=   3/738
=  0.4%
Touch -> syn. Temp.
=   1/738
=  0.1%
Vision -> syn. Smell
=   8/738
=  1.1%
Vision -> syn. Sound
=   12/738
=  1.6%
Vision -> syn. Taste
=  16/738
=  2.2%
Vision -> syn . Temp.
=   2/738
=  0.3%
Vision -> syn. Touch
=   7/738
=  0.9%


  Types of synaesthesia not yet found in 738 case reports:
 

     Taste -> syn. Smell "smelling flavors"

     Temp. -> syn. Smell  "smelling temperature flux"
     Temp. -> syn. Taste "tasting temperature flux"
     Temp. -> syn. Touch "feeling temperature flux"
 
 

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