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Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

Not exact matches

Humanity used to not be able to explain lightning or bird migrations or water spouts or earthquakes or jaundice or epilepsy or synesthesia or gout, either.

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«It's very exciting,» says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn't involved in the study.

Added Rebekah Corlew, AAAS project director, «We got to meet and talk to a girl with synesthesia: a neurological condition where the patient's perceptions do not align with the stimulus (they can hear colors, or taste sounds).

(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.»)

To be sure, people with synesthesia are not all the same, says senior research associate Simon Lacey, the first author of the paper.

People with synesthesia were not significantly more sensitive to purely sensory associations between the pitch of a sound and the size or position of a shape, compared to non-synesthetes.

Although such results demonstrate that synesthesia is automatic, in the sense that they can not turn off their synesthesic experience even when it interferes with a task, these results do not reveal whether synesthetic colors are perceptions or memories.

This synesthesia looks to me like another example of naive brains lacking the means to differentiate data because they have not yet learned the scenarios and concepts most relevant to their lives.

This is not so much cinematography as straight - up synesthesia: however the film looks, it has the smell of smoke and sweat and stale booze.

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.

Mirror - touch synesthesia Lana is able to sense things that others can't, such as the emotional residue left in a...

I do not possess synesthesia but feel deeply inspired by my choice of music.

I'm reading Lady Painter (the Joan Mitchell biography) and I can relate to her color sensitivities and synesthesia, although I don't think I have it necessarily.

Like what happens when we can't feel fear, how people live with synesthesia, and «whether our closeness with computers is changing us as a species.»

I'm not sleeping, I can't hold on to staff, I've got a nonverbal violent woman with an IQ of 36, a 7 foot tall man with gigantism, a man with pica, synesthesia, and encopresis, a woman with Prader - Willi and with intermittent explosive disorder, a Down Syndrome man who mumbles and I can't understand at all, and a woman who is catatonic.»