Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: Thresholds of Empathy with Art

The neurological condition synaesthesia (the mixing of the senses) has for over a century provoked thought about new ways of artistic seeing.

In 'Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: Thresholds of Empathy with Art', a recently discovered manifestation provides a lens through which to re-examine contemporary art experience. People with mirror-touch synaesthesia feel a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they witness touch to other people and often to objects. The condition is a rare yet r...