Tessa van Leeuwen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Tessa van Leeuwen
Postdoctoral researcher
Radboud University
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One in five autistic people may have synesthesia, a crossing of the senses. Studying synesthesia in autism may deepen our understanding of both conditions.
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