A synesthete may hear colours or see sounds.

联觉者可能会听到颜色或看到声音。

And strangely enough, more synesthetes are left-handed compared to the rest.

奇怪的是，与其他人相比，联觉者大多是左撇子。

In general, there are two major groups of synesthetes, projective and associative.

一般来说，有两大类联觉者：投射联觉和联想联觉。

When synesthetes, as they're called, hear a word, their sense of taste also becomes activated.

当被称为联觉者的人听到一个单词时，他们的味觉也会被激活。

And it goes to show that you don't have to be a synesthete to experience the world through finely tuned, interconnected senses.

就算你不是联觉者，也能通过精细协调、相互连接的感官体验世界。

The condition can also be inherited with around 40% of synesthetes having another close family member with it.

这种情况也可以遗传，大约有40%的通感者有另一个近亲具有这种能力。

But all joking aside, I'm not actually a synesthete, which is the term for people who have synaesthesia.

但抛开开玩笑不谈， 我实际上并不是联觉者，联觉者是指有联觉的人。

Exciting possibilities like tasting someone's name… Remember in my question I asked what synesthete, Jen McCready, tastes when she hears the name 'Neil'.

令人兴奋的可能性，比如“品尝”某人的名字… … 还记得吗，在我的问题中，我问联觉者珍·麦克里迪，听到“尼尔”这个名字时会尝到什么味道？

Some synesthetes have a type of synaesthesia that can involve more than just two senses, but these cases are far more rare.

有些联觉者的联觉类型可能涉及两种以上的感觉，但这种情况要罕见得多。

For example, a sound color synesthete with a blocked ear may not only lose their hearing, but the colors they usually experience may be different.

例如，一个有声音-颜色联觉的人，如果其耳朵被堵住，他们便不仅可能会失去听力，而且其体验到的颜色可能会与以往不同。