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synaesthesia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | synesthesia |
| Type of | sense impression, sense experience, aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum |
| Has types | chromaesthesia, chromesthesia |
| Derivation | synaesthetic |
Examples of synaesthesia
synaesthesia
It could be that yes, it is synaesthesia, and yes, it is a basic brain function.
From the newscientist.com
Synaesthesia seems to underpin some savants'enhanced memory and numerical skills.
From the newscientist.com
Dr Rouw and Dr Scholte chose grapheme-colour synaesthesia to study for two reasons.
From the economist.com
It is a term I created because I didn't want this to be confused with synaesthesia.
From the newscientist.com
Pain synaesthesia may be a symptom of an abnormal, ongoing hypervigilance.
From the newscientist.com
Mirror-touch synaesthesia has been previously described in a single person.
From the nature.com
The husband has synaesthesia, which means that he sees scents in colour.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
My synaesthesia is enormously enriching, as it was for Vladimir Nabokov.
From the guardian.co.uk
People with synaesthesia often say that letters, words and numbers have innate colours.
From the newscientist.com
- Synesthesia: a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
- (synaesthetic) synesthetic: relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense; "synesthetic response to music"; "synesthetic metaphor"
- Synesthesia (also spelled synu00E6sthesia or synaesthesia; from the Ancient Greek u03C3u03CDu03BD syn, "together", and u03B1u1F34u03C3u03B8u03B7u03C3u03B9u03C2 aisthu0113sis, "sensation") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes.
- Synaesthesia (sometimes spelled "Synesthesia") is a perceptual experience in which a stimulus in one modality gives rise to an experience in different sensory modality.
- A physiological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation. ...
- Wager (1999) offers an interesting example of synaesthesia. Cynthia is a synaesthete who hears colors: When middle C is played, she has the nornal auditory experience, but she also experiences, in her visual field, "a six inch high by one inch wide bar of some determinate shade of red" (p. 269). ...
- A brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard."
- A neurological condition that can be described as a "union of the senses". Synaesthetes might associate particular colours with letters or taste specific flavours when they hear certain words.
- The term is applied in literature to the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter's voice upon entering the Beavers' hiding place is described as being "tired and pale in the darkness" (99). ...
