I spend my days surrounded by thousands of written words, and sometimes I feel as though there's no escape.
This mental closed-captioning has accompanied me since late toddlerhood, almost as far back as my earliest childhood memories.
Not much is known about the neurophysiology or psychology of this phenomenon, sometimes called ticker taping, even though a reference to it first appeared in the scientific literature in the late 19th century.
As synesthesia goes, ticker taping is relatively uncommon. There are varieties of synesthesia which really have just been completely under the radar..., and ticker tape is re
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