Similarly, people with synesthesia a condition in which the senses are connected, i.
Finally we have learned the word--synesthesia--that describes what our adult daughter has been telling us for years: in her mind she sees numbers and letters of the alphabet in .
That suggests that synesthesia occurs in the earliest stages of perception--before the brain ascribes meaning to what the eye reports.
This Device Could Help the Blind See Images with Their Ears Maybe you’ve heard of synesthesia, the conflation of one sense or body part with another — not a word that tumbles from the tongue in casual conversation. It comes from the transliterated Greek words syn, “together” and aisthesis, “perception.” People who experience this peculiar-sounding effect might mentally conjure a certain smell when hearing a particular sound, or recollect a type of ...
July 9, 2013 - Techland
VS Ramachandran in The Epoch Times Processes similar to synesthesia may underlie our general capacity for metaphor and be critical to creativity,said neurologist VS Ramachandran in a press release for the study.
Daniel Tammet in Boston Globe (registration) Tammet explains his unusual relationship to the numerical world: "Scientists call my visual, emotional experience of numbers synesthesia, a rare neurological mixing of the senses. . . . Mine is an unusual and complex type, through which I see...