Sentences with word «synesthete»

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

Synesthetes reported that these arrays organized themselves into distinct rows or columns depending on whether the rows or columns of characters were the same synesthetic color.

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.

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

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.

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

«Are the associations synesthetes have just extreme versions of cross-modal correspondences that other people have, or are they qualitatively different?»

Synesthetes hear colors, feel sounds and taste shapes.

We do not know why synesthetes retain some of these anomalous connections.

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.

Different synesthetes may see 3 in yellow, pink or red.

Even more perplexing is that synesthetes typically report seeing both the color the character is printed in as well as their synesthetic color.

For lexical synesthetes, these words take on unique colors.

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

One rather striking observation is that such synesthetes all seem to experience very different colors for the same graphemic cues.

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.

Synesthetes often generate innovative visual art, music and theater.

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

Neurologist and synesthete researcher Richard Cytowic thinks synesthesia is a window into how ordinary brains work.

I reached out to synesthesia message boards, synesthetes on Twitter, etc... I also think it's important to connect with book bloggers, to point them toward your book on NetGalley and Edelweiss so they can download your story and review it for their readership, which in turn helps to expand on your own.

The Leila Heller exhibition includes works from artists who impacted the Guggenheim Foundation collection at its incipient stages, including the famed synesthete Wassily Kandinsky (who heard color and saw sound).

Neuroscientist Michael Banissy and his colleagues at University College London tested whether this heightened ability to simulate another person's experience would cause eight mirror - touch synesthetes to excel at recognizing the emotions embedded in facial expressions.

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.

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

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 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.

Fisher obtained DNA sequences from four or five synesthetes and at least one nonsynesthete from each family, covering three generations.

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.

These same networks may be hyperactive in mirror - touch synesthetes, resulting in them feeling touch viewed on someone else's body, Medina says.

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

Marilyn Monroe, Vladimir Nabokov and Vincent van Gogh are among a growing list of famous people believed to have been synesthetes.

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 the peculiar neurological condition known as synesthesia, a person's senses meld together, so that a synesthete might «hear» colors or «taste» shapes.

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.

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.

For too long, synesthetes were dismissed as having overactive imaginations, confusing memories for perceptions or taking metaphorical speech far too literally.

When asked which animation better matched the music, volunteers overwhelmingly chose the synesthete - designed animation, indicating that even though they did not realize it, their brains were closely attuned to the synchronization of different senses.

To experience the world through a synesthete's eyes, visit the Hayden Planetarium's show, SonicVision, where you might see the color of a crescendo or the shape of a B - flat.

Some synesthetes associate musical notes with distinct colors, for example, or foods with shapes (as in «pointy» flavored chicken)[ScienceNOW, 24 March 2005].

Although more work needs to be done to prove that Tammet's synesthesia does indeed account for his prodigious mathematical memory, Robertson says, the findings fit with other evidence that synesthetes can use their enriched sensory perception to boost memory.

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).

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.

I could not find any instances where a synesthete experienced exactly what Robbie Brownlaw does in The Fallen (he sees colored shapes «falling out» of the person's mouth indicating their emotions) but it would seem that such a visual experience is pretty close to that of seeing auras around people - which some scientists now believe could be a form of synesthesia.

A synesthete experiences one sense with another.

A synesthete, she played music and read poetry in her studio, using sound as a source for radiant and evocative colour.

The workshop explores synesthesia, a phenomenon in which an individual's senses overlap: a synesthete might hear an image or smell a sound.

As being synesthete I live a life in colors.