Sentences with phrase «while synaesthesia»

Daria Martin, Conversation with a Mirror - Touch Synaesthete While synaesthesia has long been celebrated by artists as an expansion of conventionally available sense, mirror - touch synaesthesia, a newly discovered form, connects vision to social worlds.

While synaesthesia may be caused by brain trauma or degeneration, many people report symptoms from an early age.»

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While the effect is barely known to science, the researchers found that this «visually - evoked auditory response» (vEAR) is far more common than other types of synaesthesia — such when certain sounds elicit a specific colour — with flashing lights and motion evoking vivid sounds.

While other typical synaesthesias are estimated to have an overall prevalence of 4.4 per cent, the vEAR effect has recently gained some prominence on social media following the rise of «noisy GIFs», and in particular the «thudding pylon» GIF which received thousands of retweets.

Kandinsky famously discovered his synaesthesia while listening to Wagner's «Lohengrin» in Moscow.