Vanessa Wang

Let’s Talk About Pain

Do you understand our sensation of pain? Before everything, the pain I’m talking about today is physical, not some types of emotional pain you feel after a huge fight or a breakup. Speaking of physical pain, we usually tend to relate them to injuries – well, that’s partially correct. Let’s try and understand pain from…

Synesthetes and their Arts

Synesthesia refers to the phenomenon in which stimulation of one sense modality gives rise to a sensation in another sense modality (Harrison and Baron 1994). I know it sounds tedious and confusing. To put this definition into plain and simple terms, a few concrete examples might help. Imagine seeing waved colors when listening to your…

Hi everyone! My name is Yang (Vanessa) Wang, and I come from Beijing, China. I haven’t declared my major yet, but I’m thinking of some combination like QSS and PSYC. I don’t really have a professional biology background, but I did learn a bit of neuroscience in my psychology class before, and I found them…