Sentences with word «synaesthete»

Helen Thomson writes that all documented pain synaesthetes suffered traumatic pain before developing the condition: «Many are amputees, and their...

We «see» letters, words or numbers as colours; other synaesthetes «taste» shapes, «hear» colours and so on.

Synaesthetes make unusual connections between different senses.

Mirror - touch synaesthetes feel conscious tactile sensations on their own bodies when they see another person, or even an object, being touched.

So are heirs to that tradition like Karl Holmqvist, whose Bebe Coca wall drawing looks like a word puzzle and connects to his poetry and spoken - word performances, and Ricci Albenda, whose vinyl wall transfer maps the alphabet onto the color spectrum so as to make synaesthetes of us all.

When viewing the images, pain synaesthetes exhibited decreased theta and alpha brainwaves compared with the other volunteers.

Synaesthetes see colour.

For example, people who had chromaesthesia were more likely to play musical instruments than other synaesthetes.

Fitzgibbon says the traumatic experience associated with losing a limb may heighten the sensitivity of pain synaesthetes to others» pain.

This interview between Daria Martin and an anonymous mirror - touch synaesthete was one of thirteen conducted as part of an AHRC Fellowship that sought to create a new model of empathic spectatorship based on mirror - touch experience.

Bernadette Fitzgibbon at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues, think those inhibitory mechanisms are themselves inhibited in pain synaesthetes.

David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky and other synaesthetes could tell you

Some synaesthetes associate different colours with letters and numbers, for instance, whereas others taste shapes.

Since it is really hard to explain your visions to someone, I assume Kandinsky was a synaesthete.»

Synaesthetes were found to have a tendency to spend more time engaging in creative disciplines, relative to non-synaesthetes.

For example, a study evaluated a sample of 82 synaesthetes and asked questions about how much time they engaged in art.

His investigations have included research with social groups such as the third - gender Muxhe, Raeilians, synaesthetes, border migrants, space engineers, and mental architects to explore how unconscious mindsets shift across cultures and backgrounds.