Cognitive Daily covers a super-elegant study that helps us understand whether synaesthesia is really just a case of 'crossed senses' or whether the perceptual blending effect requires the person to have processed some of the meaning of the triggering experience.The traditional explanation of most types of synaesthesia is that the brain's sensory areas are overly connected, so activation of one se
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January 15, 2010
Beyond crossed senses in synaesthesia
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January 8, 2010
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Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:New Scientist looks at a new theory of synaesthesia that goes beyond the 'crossed senses' idea.Looking younger may be a matter of looking less masculine, according to a study covered by the Psychology of Beauty blog.The Psych Files show interviews psychologist Scott Lilienfeld on his new book on 50 myths of popular psychology.There's a review
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December 29, 2009
Synaesthesia: Color My Numbers
For as many as 1 in 20 people, everyday experiences can elicit extra-ordinary associated sensations. The condition is known as synaesthesia and the most common form involves "seeing" colours when reading words and numbers...
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July 23, 2009
Headphone fruit
Music video director duo Terri Timely have created a beautifully shot and kaleidoscopic short film about synaesthesia.It's a visually striking piece that attempts to represent the effect of crossed senses conceptually, rather the the common approach of interpreting sounds as abstract visual impressions (probably best done in the video for Coldcut's Music 4 No Musicians).I also just like the idea.
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May 31, 2009
Synaesthesia in Frankenstein
One of the new ideas in synaesthesia research is that affected people perhaps don't develop mixed senses as their brains develop, they just fail to lose them. It seems most children might start with naturally mixed senses before perception becomes segregated through pruning of the fuzzy neural pathways.I've just noted an interesting article in Cognitive Neuropsychology on how this idea actually h
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