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IT MAY sound like folklore, but a handful of people really can see colourful “haloes” around others.
Some people claim to experience a form of synaesthesia – a crossing of the senses – that makes them see a coloured light around other people that varies in hue with emotions.
A 23-year-old man with Asperger’s disorder, identified as T. K., says he has the condition and it helps him with emotional reciprocity. To explore this claim, Vilayanur Ramachandran at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues put a volunteer – who T. K.…
