Sentences with phrase «of synesthetes»

That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.

Not exact matches

The synesthetes had one of the most common forms of the condition, which blends the perception of sound and color.

No particular genetic variant was shared across all synesthetes in all three families, suggesting there is no single «synesthesia gene» or set of genes.

Other forms of synesthesia exist, which some mirror - touch synesthetes also may have, Medina says.

How similar were the responses of the 45 synesthetes to what they actually saw?

What makes synesthesia different from drug - induced hallucinations is that synesthetic sensations are highly consistent: for particular synesthetes, the note F is always a reddish shade of rust, a 3 is always pink or truck is always blue.

When shown a display consisting of monochromatic digits, we found that a synesthete could quickly find the target because for him was orange but was green (see image).

In contrast, synesthetes — who reported hearing sounds such as beeps or taps in time with the visual signals — distinguished matching from nonmatching rhythms 75 percent of the time.

Synesthetes report having unusually good memory for things such as phone numbers, security codes and polysyllabic anatomical terminology because digits, letters and syllables take on such a unique panoply of colors.

The researchers presented four self - professed synesthetes and 10 nonsynesthetes with 100 pairs of Morse code — like rhythmic sequences, each composed of either auditory beeps or flashes of white on a black background.

But synesthetes also report making computational errors because 6 and 8 have the same color and claim to prejudge couples they meet because the colors of their first names clash so hideously.

In one task, they presented synesthetes with an array of equally - spaced letters and digits.

California Institute of Technology neuroscientists Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch confirmed the existence of hearing - motion synesthesia, as they dubbed it, by creating a task at which the synesthetes would have an advantage.

«We all, unconsciously, link together music and vision, but only synesthetes are consciously aware of these links,» he says.

He has suggested that such sensory crossover occurs normally in the limbic system, the most primitive, subconscious part of the brain, but only synesthetes, due to quirks in blood flow or some other anomaly, are aware of it.

One was designed by synesthetes to accompany a piece of music; the other was designed by nonsynesthetes.

As I understand it, the synesthete experiences these cross-sensory perceptions in a very real sense - they are not «in the mind's eye» but experienced physically and consistently (e.g. hearing a particular piece of music would trigger a particular taste every time).

Almost any combination of the senses is possible - there are synesthetes who...

The most common form of synesthesia appears to be when someone sees a letter, number or word as a particular color - for example a synesthete might see the word car as sky blue and the number 5 as light green.

Almost any combination of the senses is possible - there are synesthetes who experience sound in response to smell, others who experience smell in response to touch, and occasional incidents where three or more senses are involved.