Synesthesia

1. What is Synesthesia?

            Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation of one sensory modality activates the experience of another sensory modality. For example, when printed letters or numbers have a personality; when days appear in shapes; when sounds have a taste, or when music is seen in colors.

            People experience their “synesthetic experiences” without any effort. This condition is very rare: only one person in every 100 in 200 experience it. Although some people consider it an impairment, others say that it helps them to be more creative. Synesthesia varies in each person and it is said to be genetic, although sometimes it can be caused by a brain injury, during meditation, or through the use of some drugs.

2. What is Grapheme-Color Synesthesia?

It is a type of Synesthesia in which words, letters, or digits induce colors.

3. What is Ordinal-Linguistic Personification?

It is a form of Synesthesia in which ordered sequences, like ordinal numbers, days, months, and letters, are associated with personalities.

4. What is Number-Form Synesthesia?

It is when a mental number map appears after seeing any number form.

5. What is Sound-Color Synesthesia?

It is a type of Synesthesia in which sounds or musical notes induce colors.

6. What is Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia?

In this type of Synesthesia, words and phonemes of spoken language evoke taste sensations in the mouth.


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-Information:

http://www.synesthesia.com.au/id1.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

http://www.uel.ac.uk/psychology/research/synaesthesia/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Number_form_synesthesia

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