1. Second step, conceptual synesthesia.

2. Probably a form of synesthesia.

3. OK, it's a very phrenological view of synesthesia.

4. However, upon de-Afferentation, the associations may be experienced as synesthesia

5. Synesthesia is a trait, like having blue eyes, rather than a disorder because there's nothing wrong.

6. Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

7. Synesthesia may thus be used as a cognitive tool to cope with the abstractness of the learning materials imposed by the educational system — referred to also as a "semantic vacuum hypothesis".

8. Canaan, a covert agent with the power of synesthesia (the ability to combine senses), arrives in China just in time to save her friend, the young photojournalist Maria Osawa, from a deadly attack by the terrorist organization known as Snake