article_snippet.sent: The child with the hood in this photo was born in 1988 and is an adult synesthete.
article_snippet.sent: This graphic shows the results for 400 synesthetes with 10 or more letters matching the toy.
article_snippet.sent: Among those born in the decade after the toy began to be manufactured, the proportion of synesthetes with learned letter-colour pairings was closer to 15 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: The colours in the toy (upper row), the average colour choice for each letter from the 6188 synesthetes (middle row), and the most commonly assigned colour for each letter for the 400 synesthetes are shown here.
article_snippet.sent: For participants born between 1970 and 1985, the prevalence of synesthesia apparently learned from the Fisher-Price set can exceed 15 per cent .
article_snippet.sent: Famous synaesthetes include singers Pharrell Williams and Lady Gaga.
article_snippet.sent: Analysis of the letter-colour matching data suggests the only difference between synesthetes with matches to the toy and those without is exposure to the stimulus,' explained the paper. '
article_snippet.sent: This indicates learning of letter-colour pairings from external [sources] can occur in a substantial fraction of synesthetic, and are consistent with the hypothesis that synesthesia is a kind of conditioned mental imagery.'
article_snippet.sent: The authors also said The authors findings don't suggest that colourful toys cause synaesthesia.