It explains his fascination
with synaesthesia, an impression of the senses, which is at the heart of many abstract artworks.
Deming struggles with his schoolwork, but clearly has an aptitude for music and seems gifted
with synaesthesia — the mixing of senses — experiencing sounds as vibrant colors.
People
with synaesthesia hear numbers in colour experience words as tastes.
The effect also provides a good way to learn about what's happening in the brain in people
with synaesthesia, with vEAR's high prevalence making it easier to investigate the mechanisms behind such cross-sensory perception.
Take for instance people
with synaesthesia, who are able to experience the perception of color with letters and numbers.
Not exact matches
G. B. Caird classifies comparison into one of four classes: perceptual that appeal to any of the five senses,
synaesthesia «is the use of connection
with one of the senses of terms which are proper to another, as when we speak of sharp words (Is.
While the effect is barely known to science, the researchers found that this «visually - evoked auditory response» (vEAR) is far more common than other types of
synaesthesia — such when certain sounds elicit a specific colour —
with flashing lights and motion evoking vivid sounds.
Its prevalence may be greater than other types because auditory and visual events are much more highly correlated in nature when compared to other types of
synaesthesia associated
with colour and visual forms.
It seems to me that this is indeed
synaesthesia,
with stimulation of the visual cortex by neurological pathways from kinaesthetic and proprioceptive neural centres.
A fashion
synaesthesia takes over,
with the tactility and flow of the garments are in perfect symbiosis
with the wearer.
, but he may never improve on Rez, the Dreamcast game that taught a generation of gamers what «
synaesthesia» meant
with its almost hallucinogenic auditory landscapes and rhythm - infused gameplay.
Daria Martin, Conversation
with a Mirror - Touch Synaesthete While
synaesthesia has long been celebrated by artists as an expansion of conventionally available sense, mirror - touch
synaesthesia, a newly discovered form, connects vision to social worlds.
The exhibition includes the following films: Closeup Gallery (2003), in which a magician and his assistant engage in a strange game where cards dance, as if equivalent
with inner worlds; Soft Materials (2004) where intimate relationships between man and machine are nurtured in an artificial intelligence laboratory; Harpstrings and Lava (2007) a dark narrative that animates dream images through clashing textures and structures; and the new film Sensorium Tests (2012), which revolves around a recently recognised neurological condition called «mirror - touch
synaesthesia».
People affected
with mirror touch
synaesthesia experience a physical sense of touch on their own bodies when they see other people, or sometimes even objects, being touched.