Sinestesias
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Synesthesia
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Author : Richard E. Cytowic
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Synesthesia written by Richard E. Cytowic and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Psychology categories.
Synesthesia comes from the Greek syn (meaning union) and aisthesis (sensation), literally interpreted as a joining of the senses. Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information from one sense is joined or accompanies a perception in another. Dr. Cytowic reports extensive research into the physical, psychological, neural, and familial background of a group of synesthets. His findings form the first complete picture of the brain mechanisms that underlie this remarkable perceptual experience. His research demonstrates that this rare condition is brain-based and perceptual and not mind-based, as is the case with memory or imagery. Synesthesia offers a unique and detailed study of a condition which has confounded scientists for more than 200 years.
Synaesthesia
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Author : Julia Simner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Synaesthesia written by Julia Simner and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Medical categories.
In 1893 a Swiss neuroscientist called Theodore Flournoy conducted an interview with an individual known only as "Madame L", during which Madame L described the personalities of numbers, from 6, an orphaned young man, very well brought up and polite, to 9, the selfish and maniacal husband ofMadame 8, to the extravagant and self-centred 5. For Madame L it was impossible to contemplate the numbers without feeling their attendant personalities. This is one of the first records we have of synaesthesia, often described as a rare neurological condition that gives rise to a type of "mergingof the senses". For those who experience it - synaesthetes - one sense appears to cross with another. Some people experience the sensation of different flavours when they hear certain words, while others see vivid colours on reading words. In the varying forms of synaesthesia letters, numbers,words, sounds, colours, or textures can merge together, resulting in sensations of colourful chords, chicken that feels pointy when eaten, and beef that tastes dark blue.In this Very Short Introduction Julia Simner introduces the many different ways synaesthesia presents itself. Discussing the scientific tests we have developed for distinguishing true synaesthetes (who may not even be aware that their sensations are unusual), Simner considers how we can measure theeffects synaesthesia has on the everyday lives of people living with it. Exploring the fascinating stories of different individuals' experiences of the world through the many forms of synaesthesia, she discusses the increasingly documented links between synaesthesia and artistic creativity andlateral thinking, and also the potential limitations synaesthesia might impose. Delving into the neuroscience behind synaesthesia, Simner also relates contemporary attempts at understanding both the genetic causes of synaesthesia, and how synesthetic sensations occur in the brain.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, andenthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Hidden Sense
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Author : Cretien Van Campen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-02-26
The Hidden Sense written by Cretien Van Campen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-26 with Psychology categories.
The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature. What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination, the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of synesthetes' brains that show "crosstalk" between areas of the brain that do not normally communicate. In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research. Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes—from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire. What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense—a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.
Sensory Blending
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Author : Ophelia Deroy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Sensory Blending written by Ophelia Deroy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical categories.
Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending. Synaesthetes report seeing colours when hearing sounds or proper names, or they experience tastes when reading the names of subway stations. How do these rare cases relate to other more common examples where sensory experiences get mixed - cases like mirror-touch, personification, cross-modal mappings, and drug experiences? Are we all more or less synaesthetes, and does this mean that we are all subjects of crossmodal illusions? Could some apparently strange sensory cases give us an insight into how perception works? Recent research on the causes and prevalence of synaesthesia raises new questions regarding the links between these cases, and the unity of the condition. By bringing together contributions from leading cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers, this volume considers for the first time the broader theoretical lessons arising from such cases of sensory blending, with regard to the nature of perception and consciousness, the boundaries between perception, illusion and imagination, and the communicability and sharing of experiences.
Synesthesia
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Author : Lynn C. Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-14
Synesthesia written by Lynn C. Robertson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-14 with Psychology categories.
Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated by these two communities are intriguing: Does the synesthetic phenomenon require awareness and attention? How does a feature that is not present become bound to one that is? Does synesthesia develop or is it hard wired? Should it change our way of thinking about perceptual experience in general? What is its value in understanding perceptual systems as a whole? This volume brings together a distinguished group of investigators from diverse backgrounds--among them neuroscientists, novelists, and synesthetes themselves--who provide fascinating answers to these questions. Although each approaches synesthesia from a very different perspective, and each was curious about and investigated synesthesia for very different reasons, the similarities between their work cannot be ignored. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not synesthesia is real--we must now ask how we can account for it from cognitive, neurobiological, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. This book will be important reading for any scientist interested in brain and mind, not to mention synesthetes themselves, and others who might be wondering what all the fuss is about.
Synesthesia The Fascinating World Of Blended Senses Synesthesia And Types Of Synesthesia Explained Tests Symptoms Causes And Treatment Options Al
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Author : Lyndsay Leatherdale
language : en
Publisher: Imb Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Synesthesia The Fascinating World Of Blended Senses Synesthesia And Types Of Synesthesia Explained Tests Symptoms Causes And Treatment Options Al written by Lyndsay Leatherdale and has been published by Imb Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with categories.
What is a Synesthesia? What is a synesthete? Is it simply someone who sees blue when he/she hears the number 3? Unfortunately it is not that simple, as you will understand after reading this book. The fascinating world of blended senses is explained in this book. What are the symptoms, causes, and treatment options? All covered in this book. Including tests for synesthesia. The author, Lindsay Leatherdale, a 20 year old neuroscience and psychology under-graduate, with a special interest in synesthesia, has a friend whose dad is a synesthete. She wanted to help her friend and her dad by giving them some books to read. To her disappointment there was a lack of informative books available on synesthesia. She decided to investigate the subject thoroughly and write a book about it to be able to help her friend and lots of other people. This book is a must have for anybody who is confronted with Synesthesia. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straightforward, no nonsense fashion, Lindsay covers all aspects of synesthesia.
The Man Who Tasted Shapes Revised Edition
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Author : Richard E. Cytowic
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
The Man Who Tasted Shapes Revised Edition written by Richard E. Cytowic and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Science categories.
In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human. Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject. Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined sensation," whereby a voice, for example, is not only heard but also seen, felt, or tasted. The trait is involuntary, hereditary, and fairly common. It stayed a scientific mystery for two centuries until Cytowic's original experiments led to a neurological explanation—and to a new concept of brain organization that accentuates emotion over reason. That chicken dinner two decades ago led Cytowic to explore a deeper reality that, he argues, exists in everyone but is often just below the surface of awareness (which is why finding meaning in our lives can be elusive). In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, far from being a mere curiosity, illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what is means to be human—a view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotional knowledge, and self-understanding. This 2003 edition features a new afterword.
The Synaesthesia Of A Blind Subject
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Author : Raymond Holder Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
The Synaesthesia Of A Blind Subject written by Raymond Holder Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Blind categories.
Synaesthesia And Individual Differences
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Author : Aleksandra Maria Rogowska
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-19
Synaesthesia And Individual Differences written by Aleksandra Maria Rogowska and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A multidisciplinary exploration of the relationships between linguistic-colour synaesthesia and various dimensions of individual differences in human cognition.
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
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Author : Richard E. Cytowic
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue written by Richard E. Cytowic and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Medical categories.
How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.