What colour is the number 2?  Why does "Fuzzy Logic" have taste like fried tomatoes?

Okay, maybe not, but perhaps you've heard of the strange phenomenon called synaesthesia. This is where some people associate things - such as numbers - with other things such as taste or colour.  So what does 2 have to do with red? Nothing really, but this is the sort of thing people with synaesthesia experience. Weird, eh.

Also, what do we know about dyslexia?  And what does it mean when we pay attention to something -such as that man in a gorilla suit wondering around the basket ball court.  What's going on in the brain?

Join Fuzzy for this interview Dr Kristen Pammer, Associate Professor at the ANU School of Psychology (my apologies - not senior lecturer as I say during this recording).  And Nyssa Skilton, science writer with The Canberra Times.  Hosted by Rod Taylor.

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