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Defining synaesthesia [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, 2011
Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual phenomenon. The task of generating a definition is made more difficult by the fact that any description of synaesthesia must be broad enough to capture the 61 different ...
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Research on music education: Integrating synaesthesia theory and colour psychology

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Music education can alleviate students’ psychological stress and play a positive role in the healthy growth and development of students. Synaesthesia theory is a relatively special cognitive phenomenon that can achieve connections between different ...
Jingzhou Yang
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Cross-modal associations in synaesthesia: vowel colours in the ear of the beholder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Human speech conveys many forms of information, but for some exceptional individuals (synaesthetes), listening to speech sounds can automatically induce visual percepts such as colours.
Miller, Sam R.   +3 more
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The neuronal correlate of bidirectional synesthesia: a combined event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The neuronal correlate of a rare explicit bi-directional synaesthesia was investigated with numerical and physical size comparison tasks using both functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related potentials. Interestingly, although participant I.
Cohen Kadosh, K.   +2 more
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Training, drugs, and hypnosis: Artificial synaesthesia, or artificial paradises?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
The last few years have seen the publication of a number of studies by researchers claiming to have induced synaesthesia, pseudo-synaesthesia, or synaesthesia-like phenomena in non-synaesthetic participants.
Ophelia eDEROY, Charles eSpence
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Hearing through your eyes: neural basis of audiovisual cross-activation, revealed by transcranial alternating current stimulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Some people experience auditory sensations when seeing visual flashes or movements. This prevalent synaesthesia-like ‘visual-evoked auditory response’ (vEAR) could result either from over-exuberant cross-activation between brain areas, and/or reduced ...
Andrew Spicer   +7 more
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The role of conceptual knowledge in understanding synaesthesia: Evaluating contemporary findings from a ‘hub-and-spoke’ perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Synaesthesia is a phenomenon in which stimulation in one sensory modality triggers involuntary experiences typically not associated with that stimulation.
Rocco eChiou   +3 more
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Synesthesia vs. crossmodal illusions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We can discern two opposing viewpoints regarding synesthesia. According to the first, it is an oddity, an outlier, or a disordered condition. According to the second, synesthesia is pervasive, driving creativity, metaphor, or language itself. Which is it?
O'Callaghan, Casey
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Synaesthesia

open access: yesMatter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2021
The following entry includes firstly a list of synaesthetic portals, and secondly an initial table of scaled sensory modalities following Felicity Colman’s ‘Fragment of a Modalities Map’ (Colman, 2019, p. 985-987).  James Joyce famously begins his ‘Proteus’ chapter of Ulysses with Stephen Dedalus describing the ‘ineluctable modality of the visible ...
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Acquiring Synaesthesia: Insights from Training Studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Synaesthesia denotes a condition of remarkable individual differences in experience characterized by specific additional experiences in response to normal sensory input.
Nicolas eRothen, Beat eMeier
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