Synesthesia

Synesthesia
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9780195166231
ISBN-13 : 019516623X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Synesthesia by : Lynn C. Robertson

Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated by these two communities are intriguing: Does the synesthetic phenomenon require awareness and attention? How does a feature that is not present become bound to one that is? Does synesthesia develop or is it hard wired? Should it change our way of thinking about perceptual experience in general? What is its value in understanding perceptual systems as a whole?This volume brings together a distinguished group of investigators from diverse backgrounds--among them neuroscientists, novelists, and synesthetes themselves--who provide fascinating answers to these questions. Although each approaches synesthesia from a very different perspective, and each was curious about and investigated synesthesia for very different reasons, the similarities between their work cannot be ignored. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that it is no longer reasonable to ask whether or not synesthesia is real--we must now ask how we can account for it from cognitive, neurobiological, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. This book will be important reading for any scientist interested in brain and mind, not to mention synesthetes themselves, and others who might be wondering what all the fuss is about.

Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 1104
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ISBN-10 : 9780199603329
ISBN-13 : 0199603324
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia by : Julia Simner

Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This title brings together a broad body of knowledge about this condition into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook.

Wednesday is Indigo Blue

Wednesday is Indigo Blue
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780262012799
ISBN-13 : 0262012790
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Wednesday is Indigo Blue by : Richard E. Cytowic

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.

Sensory Blending

Sensory Blending
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9780199688289
ISBN-13 : 0199688281
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Sensory Blending by : Ophelia Deroy

Synaesthesia is a strange sensory blending: synaesthetes report experiences of colours or tastes associated with particular sounds or words. This volume presents new essays by scientists and philosophers exploring what such cases can tell us about the nature of perception and its boundaries with illusion and imagination.

Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0631197648
ISBN-13 : 9780631197645
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Synaesthesia by : John E. Harrison

Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically triggers a perceptual experience in another sensory modality. For example, on hearing a sound, the person immediately sees a colour. This volume brings together what is known about this fascinating neurological condition. The above questions, and new issues arising from the recent wave of cognitive neuroscientific research into synaesthesia, are debated in a series of chapters by leading authorities in the field.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : 9780198525196
ISBN-13 : 0198525192
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music by : Isabelle Peretz

In recent years the discpline of 'music psychology' has grown dramatically. In this volume, the two leaders in this field Isabelle Peretz and Robert Zatorre, have brought together an impressive list of contributors to present this study of the neutral correlates of music.

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 1104
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198836278
ISBN-13 : 0198836279
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia by : Julia Simner

Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This title brings together a broad body of knowledge about this condition into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781461235422
ISBN-13 : 1461235421
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Synesthesia by : Richard E. Cytowic

Synesthesia comes from the Greek syn (meaning union) and aisthesis (sensation), literally interpreted as a joining of the senses. Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information from one sense is joined or accompanies a perception in another. Dr. Cytowic reports extensive research into the physical, psychological, neural, and familial background of a group of synesthets. His findings form the first complete picture of the brain mechanisms that underlie this remarkable perceptual experience. His research demonstrates that this rare condition is brain-based and perceptual and not mind-based, as is the case with memory or imagery. Synesthesia offers a unique and detailed study of a condition which has confounded scientists for more than 200 years.

The Hidden Sense

The Hidden Sense
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9780262265003
ISBN-13 : 0262265001
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hidden Sense by : Cretien Van Campen

The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature. What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination, the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of synesthetes' brains that show "crosstalk" between areas of the brain that do not normally communicate. In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research. Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes—from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire. What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense—a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.

Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 0192632450
ISBN-13 : 9780192632456
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Synaesthesia by : John E. Harrison

Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of someone's voice or music, the sound of which looks like 'shards of glass'. Throughout history, many notable artists and writers have claimed to suffer from synaesthesia, including, Arthur Rimbaud, Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Hockney. The condition remains as controversial now as when first brought to the public eye many years ago--one notable scientist dismissing it as mere 'romantic neurology.' In Synaesthesia: the strangest thing, a world authority on synaesthesia takes us on a fascinating tour of this mysterious condition, looking at historical incidences of synaesthesia, unraveling the theories for the condition, and additionally, examining the claims to synaesthesia of the likes of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and others. The result is an exciting, yet scientific account of an incredible condition--one that will tell us of a world rich with the most unbelievable sensory experiences.