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• n  a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated

• 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.

• synaesthesia

News & Articles

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• 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

Quotes

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• 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...