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Science says Kandinsky was right - paintings can be heard

We all link music and art, but only a tiny minority of us is aware of the crossover of senses in our brains, according to a UCL (University College London) neuroscientist, speaking today at the BA Festival of Science. New research has found that vision and hearing are inextricably interlinked in everyone`s brain, but only synaesthetes, who have a rare condition in which the senses mingle, are conscious of it.