Synesthetes
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Synesthetes
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Author : Sean Day
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-28
Synesthetes written by Sean Day and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with categories.
Synesthesia is the general name for a related set of cognitive traits. Synesthesia may be divided into two general, somewhat overlapping forms. In the first, "synesthesia proper", stimuli to a sensory input will also trigger perceptions in one or more other sensory modes. For example, a person might not only hear music, but also see it; or might not only feel a touch to the hand, but also taste it.In the second form of synesthesia, called "cognitive category synesthesia", sets of things which cultures teach us to put together and categorize, such as letters, numbers, or people's names, also get sensory addition, such as a smell, color or flavor. The letter 'A' might be seen as red; the word 'book' might put a taste of oranges in one's mouth.Synesthesia affects more than 3.7% of the world's population - that's at least one out of every 27 people! Yet it is generally unknown to most people. This book explores more than 80 different types of synesthesia, from the more common, such as colored letters and numbers and time-lines, to the extraordinarily rare, such as flavors in one's mouth producing perceptions of musical chords. The author is himself a multiple synesthete who has researched and interacted with other synesthetes around the world for over 25 years.
Blue Cats And Chartreuse Kittens
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Author : Patricia Lynne Duffy
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Blue Cats And Chartreuse Kittens written by Patricia Lynne Duffy and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Psychology categories.
Imagine a world in which words have colors and sounds have tastes. In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov described this neurological phenomenon, which helped inspire David Hockney's sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Richard Feynman experienced it while formulating the quantum theory that won him a Nobel Prize. Sometimes described as a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when only one of the fives senses is aroused but two respond. Journalist Patricia Lynne Duffy draws from her own struggles and breakthroughs with synesthesia to help us better understand the condition, while describing some of the major theories surrounding it. An illuminating examination of the world of synesthetes, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens is a must-read for science and health buffs, as well as for artists, writers, and creative thinkers-or anyone generally intrigued by the brain, the senses, and perception.
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.
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
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Author : Richard E. Cytowic
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-09-30
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 2011-09-30 with Science categories.
Revealing the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia—and how this multi-sensory phenomenon changed our view of the brain. A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter “J” as shimmering magenta or the number “5” as emerald green, hear and taste her husband’s voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in 1 in 20 people, and is even more common among artists. One famous synesthete was novelist Vladimir Nabokov, who insisted as a toddler that the colors on his wooden alphabet blocks were “all wrong.” His mother understood exactly what he meant because she, too, had synesthesia. Nabokov's son Dmitri, who recounts this tale in the afterword to this book, is also a synesthete—further illustrating how synesthesia runs in families. Wednesday Is Indigo Blue reveals how the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain. Because synesthesia contradicted existing theory, researcher Richard Cytowic spent 20 years persuading colleagues that it was a real—and important—brain phenomenon rather than a mere curiosity. Today, scientists in 15 countries are exploring synesthesia and how it is changing the traditional view of how the brain works. Cytowic and neuroscientist David Eagleman argue that perception is already multisensory, though for most of us its multiple dimensions exist beyond the reach of consciousness. Reality, they point out, is more subjective than most people realize. No mere curiosity, synesthesia is a window on the mind and brain, highlighting the amazing differences in the way people see the world.
Synesthesia And The Arts
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Author : Dani Cavallaro
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-09-21
Synesthesia And The Arts written by Dani Cavallaro and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-21 with Art categories.
This study explores the relationship between synesthesia—the experience of a sensation in one perceptual domain triggering a sensation in another perceptual domain—and the arts (including painting, photography, music and literature). Its aim is twofold: to introduce readers as yet unfamiliar with synesthesia to this intriguing phenomenon by focusing on its impact on the creation and reception of art; and to alert readers already conversant with synesthesia in its many manifestations to its potential to encourage fresh ways of approaching art, of understanding the part played by our bodies in its production and receipt and, by extension, of reassessing our position in nature as humans.
Synesthesia
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Author : Lynn C. Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005
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 2005 with Medical 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.
Is Synesthesia More Than Unusual Associations
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Author : Kaitlyn Rose Bankieris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Is Synesthesia More Than Unusual Associations written by Kaitlyn Rose Bankieris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Learning categories.
"Synesthesia is a phenomenon defined by the experience of unusual associations. For instance, a lexical-gustatory synesthete may taste "cold, hard bacon" when hearing the word jail. Unlike associations common in the general population (e.g., associating relatively high pitches with relatively bright colors), synesthetic associations are conscious, incredibly precise, involuntary, and consistent. Although these associations are diagnostically the hallmark of synesthesia, a growing body of research suggests that synesthetes differ from nonsynesthetes in other ways as well. Across behavioral, neuroimaging, and genetic studies, evidence suggests that synesthetic associations are the obvious manifestation of more general, widespread cognitive differences between synesthetes and nonsynesthetes. Behaviorally, synesthetes demonstrate heightened perceptual and memory abilities in their synesthetic domain. In neuroimaging studies, group differences arise in brain areas other than those responsible for processing the synesthetic association itself. Lastly, genetic investigations of synesthesia nominate genes that are widely expressed throughout the brain and involved in multiple cognitive processes. Taken together, the current literature suggests that synesthesia is a phenomenon encompassing more than its diagnostic associations. In this dissertation, I investigated two particular cognitive functions that may operate differently in synesthetes: learning and cue combination. There is abundant evidence that synesthetic associations are neither innate (e.g., they occur in response to letters that must be learned) nor entirely random (e.g., common patterns of associations emerge when looking at populations of synesthetes), but are instead shaped in part by some form of learning. By using fine-grained measures of learning and introducing shifts in the available statistics, I investigated synesthetes' ability to learn environmental statistics and adjust to unannounced changes. Across multiple tasks and domains, I found that synesthetes and nonsynesthetes differed in the way that they learn about their environment. For explicit associations learned in a self-directed manner, I provided evidence that synesthetes learned associations more quickly than controls. In contrast, I found that synesthetes were slower to benefit from implicitly learned probabilities. Across all of these tasks, synesthetes demonstrated superior memory for the learned statistics and, potentially as a consequence, greater interference from unexpected changes in these statistics. These findings suggest that general aspects of learning and memory differ between synesthetes and nonsynesthetes, due--at least in part--to mechanisms of learning and not solely to genetic differences. Thus, my investigation of synesthetes' learning supports the hypothesis that synesthesia is a broad phenomenon, The motivation for investigating cue combination stems from mixed results regarding synesthetes' susceptibility to multisensory illusions compared to controls' susceptibility as well as neuroimaging findings that synesthetes' parietal cortex structure and activation differs from that of controls. In this dissertation, quantitatively examining synesthetes' integration of audio and visual cues revealed optimal use of both sensory and categorical information. As controls also demonstrate optimal use of sensory and categorical information during cue combination, these findings suggest that synesthetes and controls rely on the same cognitive mechanism for integration. Thus, this portion of the dissertation demonstrates a particular cognitive mechanism that is not affected by synesthesia. Combined, my evaluation of synesthetes' learning and cue combination mechanisms assists in creating a more complete picture of synesthesia."--Pages v-vi.
Tasting The Universe
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Author : Maureen Seaberg
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Tasting The Universe written by Maureen Seaberg and has been published by Red Wheel/Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Psychology categories.
“Explores a dimension of synesthesia long encountered in reports of synesthetes: its relation to mystical and artistic vision . . . fascinating accounts.”—Patricia Lynne Duffy, author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia. The wondrous brain trait is often described as blended senses, but for Maureen, synesthesia is not an idle “brain tick” that can be explained away by science (although it does offer some important clues). It is a unique ability to tap into and reveal a greater creative universe and even the divine. Join her as she visits top neuroscientists, rock stars, violinists, other synesthetes, philosophers, savants, quantum physicists and even Tibetan lamas in her journey toward the truth. Step into Maureen’s shimmering alternate universe as she explores this fascinating subject, combining clear explanations of groundbreaking scientific research with an exploration of deeper spiritual truths. “Tasting the Universe is not only the brilliant writing of a top, professional journalist looking in on a strange but romantic phenomena, but it is the writing of a person who could embrace the feelings of those she interviews, because author Seaberg herself possesses this remarkable gift of synesthesia. I predict when you pick up this book, you will be unable to put it down, as it will open up for you a whole new world in our universe.”—The Amazing Kreskin
The Synesthesia Experience
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Author : Maureen Seaberg
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Release Date : 2023-09-04
The Synesthesia Experience written by Maureen Seaberg and has been published by Red Wheel/Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-04 with Science categories.
“Explores a dimension of synesthesia long encountered in reports of synesthetes: its relation to mystical and artistic vision . . . fascinating accounts.” —Patricia Lynne Duffy, author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens “The Synesthesia Experience will open up for you a whole new world in our universe.” —The Amazing Kreskin What does blue taste like to you? A violinist sees a scarlet form when he plays a certain note; a rock star sees waves of blue and green as he composes a ballad; an actress tastes cake when she utters the word “table.” Described by some as a superpower, this mingling of the senses is called synesthesia, and the people who possess this amazing gift are called synesthetes. What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and spent a year exploring her synesthesia. What she learned is that synesthesia is not an idle “brain tick” but a unique ability to tap into and reveal a greater creative universe and even the divine. Join her as she visits top neuroscientists, rock stars, violinists, other synesthetes, philosophers, savants, quantum physicists, and even Tibetan lamas on her journey toward the truth. Famous synesthetes and experts interviewed in the book include Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman, Pharrell Williams, Dr. Dean Radin, Dr. Amit Goswami, and Dylan Lauren.
The World Of Synesthesia
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Author : Aurore Densford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-15
The World Of Synesthesia written by Aurore Densford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-15 with categories.
Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor. The word synesthesia comes from two Greek words, syn (together) and aisthesis (perception). Therefore, synesthesia literally means "joined perception." Synesthesia can involve any of the senses. The most common form, colored letters and numbers, occurs when someone always sees a certain color in response to a certain letter of the alphabet or number. For example, a synesthete (a person with synesthesia) might see the word "plane" as mint green or the number "4" as dark brown. There are also synesthetes who hear sounds in response to smell, who smell in response to touch, or who feel something in response to sight. Just about any combination of the senses is possible. There are some people who possess synesthesia involving three or even more senses, but this is extremely rare. Do you want to find out if you are a synesthete? This book offers insight into anyone "different". Part one addresses some of the sensorial and neurological distinctions synesthetes experience. Part two is about how those distinctions color the author's physical expression. Symphony of Color offers a unique perspective on what "born different" feels like.