Edited by Julia Simner, Reader, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Edward M. Hubbard, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Dr. Julia Simner is an experimental neuropsychologist and leading expert in the field of synaesthesia research. She has a background in psychology, languages and linguistics from the Universities of Oxford, Toronto and Sussex, and she currently runs the Synaesthesia and Sensory Integration lab at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work focusses on the sensory, cognitive, linguistic, developmental, and historical bases of synaesthesia, and has been published in high impact science journals such as Nature, Trends in Cognitive Science and Brain. She is keenly interested in facilitating the public's understanding of science and her work has been reported in over 100 media articles world-wide, including the NY Times, BBC, CBC, Telegraph, Times, New Scientist, Scientific American etc. In 2010 she was recognised as an outstanding European scientist by the European Commission's Atomium Culture Initiative and her science writing has been published in some of Europe's leading national newspapers.
Dr. Edward M. Hubbard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he directs the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory. He received degrees from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and completed his post-doctoral training at INSERM's Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit and Vanderbilt University. He has investigated the perceptual and neural bases of grapheme-color synesthesia and synesthetic number forms for nearly twenty years, and his behavioural and neuroimaging work was critical in convincing the scientific community that synaesthesia was a valid, tractable topic for investigation. More recently, he has begun to investigate the neural basis of numerical and mathematical processing in non-synesthetes, and the development of these abilities in children, to better understand the neural mechanisms that lead to the development of synesthesia in children.
Carrie Allison, University of Cambridge, UK
Bryan D. Alvarez, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Julian E. Asher, Imperial College London, UK
Michael J. Banissy, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge, UK
Greta Berman, The Juilliard School, USA
Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center and the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, USA
Colin Blakemore, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
David Brang, University of California, San Diego, USA
Alicia Callejas Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Duncan A. Carmichael, University of Edinburgh, UK
Roi Cohen-Kadosh University of Oxford, UK
Christine Cuskley, University of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Cytowic, George Washington University Medical Center, USA
Sean A. Day, OCAD University, USA
Anne G. De Volder, University College London, UK
Patricia Lynne Duffy, Author; New York, USA
Chris D. Frith, University College London, UK
Laura C. Gibson, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, USA
Peter Hancock, University of Stirling, UK
Avishai Henik, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Edward M. Hubbard, Vanderbilt University, USA
Wan-Yu Hung, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lutz Jäncke, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ashok S. Jansari, University of East London, UK
Michelle Jarick, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jörg Jewanski, University of Münster, Germany
Donielle Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Clare Jonas, University of Sussex, UK
Brian L. Keeley, Pitzer College, USA
Chai-Youn Kim, Vanderbilt University, USA
Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh, UK
Bruno Laeng, University of Oslo, UK
Tessa M. van Leeuwen, MPI Brain Research, Germany
Christopher T. Lovelace, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Juan Lupiáñez, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
Mary-Ellen Lynall, University of Oxford, UK
Lawrence E. Marks, Yale University, USA
Jason B. Mattingley, Queensland Brain Institute & School of Psychology The University of Queensland, Australia
Daphne Maurer, McMaster University, USA
Beat Meier, University of Bern, Switzerland
Kevin J. Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Christine Mohr, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz, Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
Neil G. Muggleton, University College London, UK
Catherine M. Mulvenna, Yale University, USA
Fiona N. Newell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tanja C.W. Nijboer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Danko Nikolic, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Cesare Parise, Max Planck Institute for Biological Ceybernetics, Germany
Mark C. Price, University of Bergen, Norway
VS Ramachandran, University of California San Diego, USA
Laurent Renier, Institute Of NeuroScience, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Anina N. Rich, Macquarie University, Australia
Lynn C. Robertson, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Nicolas Rothen, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, UK
Romke Rouw, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Noam Sagiv, Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University London, UK
Julia Simner, University of Edinburgh, UK
Monika Sobczak-Edmans, Centre for Cognition & Neuroimaging, Brunel University London, UK
Ferrinne Spector, McMaster University, USA
Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
Mary Jane Spiller, University of East London, UK
Carol Steen, Artist New York, USA
Elias Tsakanikos, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
Cretien van Campen, Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Netherlands
Argiro Vatakis Institute for Language & Speech Processing, Greece
Vincent E. Walsh, University College London, UK
Jamie Ward, University of Sussex, UK
Peter H. Weiss, Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics-Medicine, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Markus Zedler, Hanover Medical School, Germany
