Superior encoding enhances recall in color
... as a hallmark of synesthetic ability. All synesthetes scored over 85%, whereas control scores ranged between 40% and 60%. We had used these tests across several experiments with consistent results. During screening, all synesthetic participants reported seeing color for printed words. In addition, m ...
... as a hallmark of synesthetic ability. All synesthetes scored over 85%, whereas control scores ranged between 40% and 60%. We had used these tests across several experiments with consistent results. During screening, all synesthetic participants reported seeing color for printed words. In addition, m ...
Synesthesia and memory
... he was able to encode complex materials within a short period of time and recall them accurately even after several years. One of the questions that arose from observations like these was whether synesthesia causes an extra-ordinary memory in general—or simply an advantage for the retrieval from mem ...
... he was able to encode complex materials within a short period of time and recall them accurately even after several years. One of the questions that arose from observations like these was whether synesthesia causes an extra-ordinary memory in general—or simply an advantage for the retrieval from mem ...
Synesthetic personification
... Although synesthetic experiences can be induced by many different types of stimuli— emotions, flavors, musical sounds, temperature, and others—the most common inducers are linguistic constructs. We can differentiate between two different types of inducers in personification: linguistic inducers, suc ...
... Although synesthetic experiences can be induced by many different types of stimuli— emotions, flavors, musical sounds, temperature, and others—the most common inducers are linguistic constructs. We can differentiate between two different types of inducers in personification: linguistic inducers, suc ...
Final Paper - The Oxbow School
... have evolved in my head to what has become my current fascination with synesthesia. This project was created to allow me to delve further into my fascination with this subject, and begin to understand the phenomenon that is synesthesia. This past year, I was tested for learning disorders, and found ...
... have evolved in my head to what has become my current fascination with synesthesia. This project was created to allow me to delve further into my fascination with this subject, and begin to understand the phenomenon that is synesthesia. This past year, I was tested for learning disorders, and found ...
Synesthesia
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia; from the Ancient Greek σύν syn, ""together"", and αἴσθησις aisthēsis, ""sensation"") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia: Many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia (""union of the senses""), and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate. A more accurate term may be ideasthesia.In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be ""farther away"" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise).Only a fraction of types of synesthesia have been evaluated by scientific research. Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person.Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was largely abandoned by scientific research in the mid-20th century. Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, and functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation. Many find that synesthesia aids the creative process. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent appeal, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike.