Developing synaesthesia: A primer [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Synaesthesia is a variation of human experience that involves the automatic activation of unusual concurrent experiences in response to ordinary inducing stimuli. The causes for the development of synaesthesia are not well understood yet. Synaesthesia may have a genetic basis resulting in enhanced cortical connectivity during development.
Beat eMeier, Nicolas eRothen
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Was kann uns schwache sprachliche Synästhesie über „starke synästhetische Metapher“ sagen? Schwache vs. starke Synästhesie im Deutschen und deren Problemstellen veranschaulicht am Beispiel des Lexems Freude [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 Synaesthesia is undoubtedly a very complicated and complex phenomenon. Regarding its nature and definition, it poses a wide variety of difficulties not only from the neurocognitive but especially from the linguistic perspective. Both, the weak and strong
Przemysław Staniewski
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Synesthesia in Mahmoud Darwish and Qahar Asi’s Poems (A Case Study on Don’t Apologize for What You’ve Done and from the Fire from the Silk [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2022 1. IntroductionSynaesthesia is a rhetorical and artistic device. This figure of speech is derived from the combination of two senses or the paradigmatic relations between senses.
Vahidullah Jamal +1 more
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New insights into mechanisms of enhanced synaesthetic memory: Benefits are synaesthesia-type-specific. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The goal of this study was to test the nature of the memory advantage in synaesthesia. We compared four different types of synaesthetes (27 grapheme-colour, 21 sound-colour-, 25 grapheme-colour-and-sound-colour- and 24 sequence-space synaesthetes) to ...
Katrin Lunke, Beat Meier
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The Emergence of Synaesthesia in a Neuronal Network Model via Changes in Perceptual Sensitivity and Plasticity. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2016 Synaesthesia is an unusual perceptual experience in which an inducer stimulus triggers a percept in a different domain in addition to its own. To explore the conditions under which synaesthesia evolves, we studied a neuronal network model that represents
Oren Shriki, Yaniv Sadeh, Jamie Ward
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Wellbeing differences in children with synaesthesia: anxiety and mood regulation
Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite, 2020 Synaesthesia is a neurodevelopmental trait that causes unusual sensory experiences (e.g., perceiving colours when reading letters and numbers). Our paper represents the first evidence that synaesthesia can impact negatively on children’s well-being, and ...
Julia Simner +3 more
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Personality profile of child synaesthetes
Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite, 2020 Previous research into personality and synaesthesia has focused on adult populations and yielded mixed results. One particular challenge has been to distinguish traits associated with synaesthesia, from traits associated with the ways in which ...
Louisa J. Rinaldi +3 more
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On the “Odoresque” and “Aero-Perfumes”: Smell Related Neologisms in Avant-garde and Contemporary Art and Scholarship [PDF]
Amfiteater, 2021 For her doctoral dissertation “In Search of Lost Scents,” art and scent historian Caro Verbeek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum, The Hague) collected olfactory neologisms or newly invented smell related words from (art) historical sources ...
Caro Verbeek
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European Neurology, 2006 Synaesthesia is the intriguing, involuntary experience of feeling one sensation in response to a different sensory stimulus. Recognised since described in 1890 by John Locke and clarified by Galton in the 1880s, it has been analysed in the last 50 years.
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Synestézie v autorských knihách Daisy Mrázkové
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2021 The paper focuses on books illustrated and written by the Czech artist Daisy Mrázková. It covers main inspirations and biographical information related to this segment of her artistic work.
Markéta Čejková
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