What is Synesthesia & Chromesthesia?Seeing music as colors. Taste salt and see colors. Synesthesia is the ability to perceive through your senses information you receive intellectually.
Criteria for Synesthesia [1]
"The colours my daughter 'sees' for each musical note."
Image by Jess, Photo by Andrew Bullock, 2009 [2] What is Synesthesia?
"Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor. The word synesthesia comes from two Greek words, syn (together) and aisthesis (perception). Therefore, synesthesia literally means 'joined perception.' "[3]
|
History and Research
A Statistical Study of Pseudo-Chromesthesia
and of Mental-Forms Mary Whiton Calkins The American Journal of Psychology Vol. 5, No. 4 (Jul., 1893), pp. 439-464 Published by: University of Illinois Press DOI: 10.2307/1411912 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1411912 Page Count: 28 Footnotes
|