Tessa van Leeuwen

Postdoctoral researcher
Radboud University

Tessa van Leeuwen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Spectrum

By Tessa van Leeuwen, Rob van Lier

16 June 2020

6 min read

People with autism may smell songs or hear colors

One in five autistic people may have synesthesia, a crossing of the senses. Studying synesthesia in autism may deepen our understanding of both conditions.

Spectrum

People with autism may smell songs or hear colors

By Tessa van Leeuwen, Rob van Lier

16 June 2020 | 6 min read

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A new atlas of abstracts visualizes the field of human brain mapping—where does your work fit?

Satrajit Ghosh talks to Mac Shine about a community-built tool that places every abstract from the 2026 Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting inside a semantic map of the broader neuroscience literature. Finding your neighbors in that space might matter more than you think.