SENSORY BLENDING: ON SYNAESTHESIA AND RELATED PHENOMENA torrent

Author: Ophelia Deroy
Publication Date: April 14, 2017
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Format: pdf
Size: 1.7M

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Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending. Synaesthetes report seeing colours when hearing sounds or proper names, or they experience tastes when reading the names of subway stations. How do these rare cases relate to other more common examples where sensory experiences get mixed - cases like mirror-touch, personification, cross-modal mappings, and drug experiences? Are we all more or less synaesthetes, and does
this mean that we are all subjects of crossmodal illusions? Could some apparently strange sensory cases give us an insight into how perception works? Recent research on the causes and prevalence of synaesthesia raises new questions regarding the links between these cases, and the unity of the
condition.


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