The UK Synaesthesia Association was originally founded by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen FBA is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College...

, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge University and a leading researcher into synaesthesia

Synesthesia

Synesthesia , from the ancient Greek , "together," and , "sensation," is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway...

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Activities

The Association brings scientists, researchers, students and synaesthetes together and provides verifiable and reliable information regarding the condition for the media and any other interested parties. The UKSA operates as a non-profit making organisation and has an open membership scheme. The Association produces an entertaining and informative quarterly newsletter for its members and also holds an annual international conference with eminent guest speakers including scientists, researchers and synaesthetes themselves.

It is based in Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard

-Lower schools:*Beaudesert Lower School - Apennine Way*Clipstone Brook Lower School - Brooklands Drive*Greenleas Lower School - Derwent Road*Dovery Down Lower School - Heath Road*Heathwood Lower School - Heath Road*Leedon Lower School - Highfield Road...

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International Synaesthesia Associations

• American Synesthesia Association
  American Synesthesia Association
  The American Synesthesia Association is a not-for-profit academic and public society whose mission is to foster and promote the education and the advancement of knowledge of the phenomena of synesthesia, a neurological condition in which stimulation in one sensory modality leads to experiences in...
  
  
• Australian Synaesthesia Association
• Belgian Synesthesia Association
  Belgian Synesthesia Association
  The Belgian Synesthesia Association is an online portal for synesthesia and art that attempts to present relevant sources on the connection between mind and art, theory, experiments and research on the future of the senses...