Sentences with phrase «linked synesthesia»

(It could be argued that Shakespeare also linked synesthesia, in a broader form, to meaning: Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, describes his dream as being indescribable because «The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen... what my dream was.»)

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As we shall see in the following chapters, Shereshevskii possessed a very strong synesthesia — an involuntary link between different senses, like associating numbers with colors — that gave his memories a much richer content and thus made them easier to recollect.

Young says that to these people the smell of rain is linked to the color green, a connection she calls «cultural synesthesia.»

A new study has found a link between autism and synesthesia, a condition when one sense triggers another (like seeing sounds in color).

A neurological phenomenon that causes a person to associate colors with everything from letters to days of the week and even people and emotions, graphemeàcolor synesthesia doesn't have many practical uses in my own life, unless you count the time I filled awkward silences at my spouse's company Christmas party by entertaining acquaintances with the colors my brain links to two particularly unpopular high school foreign language teachers with whom everyone in the group happened to share an F - filled history.

What interests me especially is his linking of synesthesia to the ability to use metaphor.