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Journal articles on the topic "Synaesthesia"

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O'Dowd, Alan, Sarah M. Cooney, David P. McGovern, and Fiona N. Newell. "Do synaesthesia and mental imagery tap into similar cross-modal processes?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1787 (October 21, 2019): 20180359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0359.

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Synaesthesia has previously been linked with imagery abilities, although an understanding of a causal role for mental imagery in broader synaesthetic experiences remains elusive. This can be partly attributed to our relatively poor understanding of imagery in sensory domains beyond vision. Investigations into the neural and behavioural underpinnings of mental imagery have nevertheless identified an important role for imagery in perception, particularly in mediating cross-modal interactions. However, the phenomenology of synaesthesia gives rise to the assumption that associated cross-modal interactions may be encapsulated and specific to synaesthesia. As such, evidence for a link between imagery and perception may not generalize to synaesthesia. Here, we present results that challenge this idea: first, we found enhanced somatosensory imagery evoked by visual stimuli of body parts in mirror-touch synaesthetes, relative to other synaesthetes or controls. Moreover, this enhanced imagery generalized to tactile object properties not directly linked to their synaesthetic associations. Second, we report evidence that concurrent experience evoked in grapheme—colour synaesthesia was sufficient to trigger visual-to-tactile correspondences that are common to all. Together, these findings show that enhanced mental imagery is a consistent hallmark of synaesthesia, and suggest the intriguing possibility that imagery may facilitate the cross-modal interactions that underpin synaesthesic experiences. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
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Lalwani, Poortata, and David Brang. "Stochastic resonance model of synaesthesia." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1787 (October 21, 2019): 20190029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0029.

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In synaesthesia, stimulation of one sensory modality evokes additional experiences in another modality (e.g. sounds evoking colours). Along with these cross-sensory experiences, there are several cognitive and perceptual differences between synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. For example, synaesthetes demonstrate enhanced imagery, increased cortical excitability and greater perceptual sensitivity in the concurrent modality. Previous models suggest that synaesthesia results from increased connectivity between corresponding sensory regions or disinhibited feedback from higher cortical areas. While these models explain how one sense can evoke qualitative experiences in another, they fail to predict the broader phenotype of differences observed in synaesthetes. Here, we propose a novel model of synaesthesia based on the principles of stochastic resonance. Specifically, we hypothesize that synaesthetes have greater neural noise in sensory regions, which allows pre-existing multisensory pathways to elicit supra-threshold activation (i.e. synaesthetic experiences). The strengths of this model are (a) it predicts the broader cognitive and perceptual differences in synaesthetes, (b) it provides a unified framework linking developmental and induced synaesthesias, and (c) it explains why synaesthetic associations are inconsistent at onset but stabilize over time. We review research consistent with this model and propose future studies to test its limits. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
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Just, Dyedra K. C. "Was Kandinsky a Synaesthete? Examining His Writings and Other Evidence." Multisensory Research 30, no. 3-5 (2017): 447–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134808-00002547.

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Wassily Kandinsky is widely regarded as one of the most prominent examples of a synaesthetic artist. However, in the scientific literature there is disagreement on the genuineness of his synaesthesia. This paper investigates whether Kandinsky had inborn synaesthesia, while acknowledging that there are also types of induced synaesthesia which he may have cultivated. As these two types of synaesthesia are seen to work additively in some synaesthetes and not to be mutually exclusive, this is not seen as an argument against the view that he was a true inborn synaesthete. Whether Kandinsky was a synaesthete is examined through a detailed study of his primary writings (e.g., On the Spiritual in Art, Point and Line to Plane, and Reminiscences), in light of the modern diagnostic criteria. The experiences described in those writings indicate that his synaesthetic perceptions were genuine and inborn and not just a theoretical endeavour. Given the genetic dimension of synaesthesia, this view is further supported by the fact that Kandinsky’s uncle Victor Kandinsky also described having synaesthetic experiences.
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Noeske, Nina. "„Ein violetter Ort von blecherner Beschaffenheit und ebensolchem Klang“ Ligetis Synästhesien." Studia Musicologica 57, no. 1-2 (June 2016): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/6.2016.57.1-2.4.

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The article focuses on Ligeti’s synaesthesia: after referring to some early ‘synaesthetic’ compositions often mentioned by the composer, the phenomenon of synaesthesia in general is examined. It turns out that Ligeti’s fondness of synaesthesia has to be seen in relation to his ‘postmodern’ emphasis on spatiality in music – and thereby with his attempts to overcome transitoriness and death.
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Mankin, Jennifer L. "Deepening understanding of language through synaesthesia: a call to reform and expand." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1787 (October 21, 2019): 20180350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0350.

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In this paper, I present arguments and suggestions for the improvement of the scientific study of synaesthesia, and particularly grapheme-colour synaesthesia in relation to psycholinguistic research, although the principles I advocate can be easily adapted to any subfield of synaesthesia study. I postulate that the current state of research on synaesthesia in general, and on grapheme-colour synaesthesia in particular, suffers from a lack of exploratory evidence and essential groundwork upon which to build hypothesis-testing studies. In particular, I argue that synaesthesia research has been artificially bounded by assumptions about the nature of synaesthetic experiences, which constrain both the questions that researchers ask and the way in which they go about answering those questions. As a specific example, I detail how much of the current research on grapheme-colour synaesthesia is built to accommodate two major assumptions about the nature of colours for letters and for words—assumptions which I will contend are not universally true, and the exceptions to which point to a much richer and heterogeneous understanding of synaesthetic experience than current research practices capture. The top-down predetermination of what is important or meaningful to measure, and what is not, has subsequently impeded a full understanding of what synaesthesia is and how it works. I argue that these assumptions must be carefully addressed and evaluated, both for the particular case of grapheme-colour synaesthesia and for the field as a whole, to move towards a holistic and fruitful understanding of synaesthesia as a phenomenon and as a tool to study language, thought and perception. To that end, I propose specific recommendations for synaesthesia researchers to solidify and expand their understanding and to capture the actual experience of synaesthetes. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
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Schwartzman, David J., Daniel Bor, Nicolas Rothen, and Anil K. Seth. "Neurophenomenology of induced and natural synaesthesia." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1787 (October 21, 2019): 20190030. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0030.

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People with synaesthesia have additional perceptual experiences, which are automatically and consistently triggered by specific inducing stimuli. Synaesthesia therefore offers a unique window into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying conscious perception. A long-standing question in synaesthesia research is whether it is possible to artificially induce non-synaesthetic individuals to have synaesthesia-like experiences. Although synaesthesia is widely considered a congenital condition, increasing evidence points to the potential of a variety of approaches to induce synaesthesia-like experiences, even in adulthood. Here, we summarize a range of methods for artificially inducing synaesthesia-like experiences, comparing the resulting experiences to the key hallmarks of natural synaesthesia which include consistency, automaticity and a lack of ‘perceptual presence’. We conclude that a number of aspects of synaesthesia can be artificially induced in non-synaesthetes. These data suggest the involvement of developmental and/or learning components in the acquisition of synaesthesia, and they extend previous reports of perceptual plasticity leading to dramatic changes in perceptual phenomenology in adults. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
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Glicksohn, Joseph, Orna Salinger, and Anat Roychman. "An Exploratory Study of Syncretic Experience: Eidetics, Synaesthesia and Absorption." Perception 21, no. 5 (October 1992): 637–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p210637.

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Synaesthesia and eidetic imagery are both syncretic experiences entailing a dedifferentiation of perceptual qualities. In this paper the correlation between synaesthesia and eidetic imagery is explored. Ten subjects selected for possible eidetic and/or synaesthetic ability were tested in a battery of tasks that tap structural and typographic eidetic imagery, and colour—hearing and colour—mood synaesthesia. It was found that both structural and typographic eidetic imagery were correlated with measures of synaesthesia, indicating a relationship between the two phenomena.
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Ronga, Irene, Carla Bazzanella, Ferdinando Rossi, and Giandomenico Iannetti. "Linguistic synaesthesia, perceptual synaesthesia, and the interaction between multiple sensory modalities." Pragmatics and Cognition 20, no. 1 (May 7, 2012): 135–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.20.1.06ron.

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Recent studies on cortical processing of sensory information highlight the importance of multisensory integration, and define precise rules governing reciprocal influences between inputs of different sensory modalities. We propose that psychophysical interactions between different types of sensory stimuli and linguistic synaesthesia share common origins and mechanisms. To test this hypothesis, we compare neurophysiological findings with corpus-based analyses relating to linguistic synaesthesia. Namely, we present Williams’ hypothesis and its recent developments about the hierarchy of synaesthetic pairings, and examine critical aspects of this theory concerning universality, directionality, sensory categories, and usage of corpora. These theoretical issues are verified against linguistic data derived from corpus-based analyses of Italian synaesthetic pairings related to auditory and tactile modalities. Our findings reveal a strong parallel between linguistic synaesthesia and neurophysiological interactions between different sensory stimuli, suggesting that linguistic synaesthesia is affected by tendencies similar to the rules underlying the perceptual association of distinct sensory modalities.
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Strik Lievers, Francesca. "Synaesthesia." Functions of Language 22, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 69–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.22.1.04str.

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In the existing literature on synaesthetic metaphors in poetry it is proposed that transfers tend to go from the ‘lower’ (touch, smell, taste) to the ‘higher’ (sight, hearing) sensory modalities. The purpose of this article is to establish if the same directionality also holds for synaesthetic associations found in other text types. To this end, a method for the semi-automatic extraction of synaesthesia is introduced and applied to general-purpose corpora of English (ukWaC) and Italian (itWaC). In the data collected for these languages, most transfers proceed in the expected direction, e.g. sweet voice, but instances of ‘backward’ transfers are also found, e.g. bitter cold. Based on these results, it is claimed that the ‘directionality principle’ reflects the frequency of association types, rather than representing universal constraints on synaesthetic transfers, as has often been more or less explicitly assumed. It is here argued that both properties of human perception and more strictly linguistic factors can account for the frequency tendencies observed in synaesthesia. The proposed interpretation is also shown to account for apparently contradictory evidence coming from typological studies on verbs of perception.
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Ward, Jamie. "Synaesthesia: a distinct entity that is an emergent feature of adaptive neurocognitive differences." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1787 (October 21, 2019): 20180351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0351.

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In this article, I argue that synaesthesia is not on a continuum with neurotypical cognition. Synaesthesia is special: its phenomenology is different; it has distinct causal mechanisms; and is likely to be associated with a distinct neurocognitive profile. However, not all synaesthetes are the same, and there are quantifiable differences between them. In particular, the number of types of synaesthesia that a person possesses is a hitherto underappreciated variable that predicts cognitive differences along a number of dimensions (mental imagery, sensory sensitivity, attention to detail). Together with enhanced memory, this may constitute a common core of abilities that may go some way to explaining why synaesthesia might have evolved. I argue that the direct benefits of synaesthesia are generally limited (i.e. the synaesthetic associations do not convey novel information about the world) but, nevertheless, synaesthesia may develop due to other adaptive functions (e.g. perceptual ability, memory) that necessitate changes to design features of the brain. The article concludes by suggesting that synaesthesia forces us to reconsider what we mean by a ‘normal’ mind/brain. There may be multiple ‘normal’ neurodevelopmental trajectories that can sculpt very different ways of experiencing the world, of which synaesthesia is but one. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Bridging senses: novel insights from synaesthesia’.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Synaesthesia"

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Carmichael, Duncan Andrew. "Synaesthesia and comorbidity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15796.

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Synaesthesia is a hereditary, neurological condition in which common stimuli trigger unexpected secondary sensations. For example, reading letters may result in the visualisation of colour, a variant known as grapheme-colour synaesthesia. While synaesthesia is thought to confer a range of benefits such as improved memory, empathy, visual search and creativity to the synaesthete, there is a small, yet growing, body of evidence that suggests synaesthesia may also be associated with more clinical conditions. This thesis investigates potential associations between synaesthesia and a range of clinical conditions, identifying a set of cormorbidities, and exploring the possible genetic roots of these associations. First, I identified an increased prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) and its clinical precursor, radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS) in synaesthetes self-referring for participation in scientific studies. Furthermore, I identified an increased occurrence of anxiety disorder in randomly sampled synaesthetes. In addition, I show that synaesthetes with anxiety disorder experience reduced luminance in their synaesthetic colours. I also conducted an association study into the genetic origins of synaesthesia and propose the immune hypothesis of synaesthesia, which provides a theoretical basis for comorbidities (linked to the altered cortical connectivity thought to underlie the development of synaesthesia). Finally, in phenotyping synaesthesia in individuals, I also validated the most widely used online test for synaesthesia, and use this test to provide a reliable prevalence of grapheme-colour synaesthesia in the general population. Such baselines are important for establishing whether other (e.g., clinical) populations are showing rates of synaesthesia higher than otherwise expected. I also demonstrate there is no significant difference in grapheme-colour synaesthesia prevalence between the sexes and discuss its implications for genetic theories of synaesthesia.
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Mankin, Jennifer Lauren. "The psycholinguistics of synaesthesia." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76640/.

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To most people, a question like “What colour is the letter A?” may seem nonsensical, but to a grapheme-colour synaesthete, each letter and word has an automatically evoked colour sensation associated with it. This thesis asks whether the synaesthetic colours for letters and words are shaped by the same influences that inform the typical use of language – that is, if grapheme-colour synaesthesia is fundamentally psycholinguistic in nature. If this is the case, the colour experiences of synaesthetes for letters and words can also be used to investigate long-standing questions about how language acquisition and processing work for everyone. This thesis addresses two aspects of the psycholinguistic roots of synaesthesia: structure/morphology and meaning/semantics. The first two studies on word structure collected colour responses from synaesthetes for compound words (e.g. rainbow), the constituent morphemes of those words separately (e.g. rain and bow), and the letters that in turn form those words (e.g. R, A, B, etc.). These studies showed that synaesthetic word colouring does indeed encode linguistic properties such as word frequency and morphological structure. Furthermore, both linguistic and colour elements of words were important in determining their synaesthetic colour. The second two studies turned to the semantic aspect of language, asking how the meanings associated with words (e.g. red, fire) and even individual letters (e.g. A, Q) can influence the colours that a synaesthete experiences for them. The first of these studies indicated that the synaesthetic colour for a word like red or fire was measurably influenced by the colour that word typically evokes (e.g. the red of red and the orange of fire). The second showed that trends in letter-colour associations in large-scale studies (e.g. A is typically red) may be rooted in connections to particular words (e.g. A is red because A is for apple and apples are red). Overall, this thesis shows that both word structure and meaning have a systematic, measureable effect on synaesthetic colour, which allows these colours to then be used as a new tool to investigate psycholinguistic questions.
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Anderson, Hazel Patricia. "Synaesthesia, hypnosis and consciousness." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54236/.

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For people with synaesthesia, a percept or concept (inducer) triggers another experience (concurrent) which is usually in a different modality. The concurrent is automatic, and in the case of certain types of synaesthesia also consistent, however the relationship between the inducer and concurrent is not fully understood and shall be investigated in this thesis from different perspectives. The first is using hypnosis to suggest synaesthesia-like phenomenological experiences to participants, and measuring behavioural responses to see whether they behave in a similar manner to developmental synaesthetes. Results from hypnotic; 1) grapheme-colour (GC) synaesthesia; 2) motion-sound synaesthesia; suggest that phenomenological experiences similar to developmental synaesthesia can be experienced by highly susceptible participants, but is not associated with the same behaviour as developmental synaesthetes. Developmental GC synaesthetes were tested to determine whether a grapheme presented preconsciously binds with the concurrent colour to the extent that it influences behaviour or evokes the phenomenology of colour. Two techniques were used, gaze-contingent substitution (GCS) and continuous flash suppression (CFS). Using GCS, it was shown that although digits can be primed preconsciously, they don't bind with their concurrent colour to influence behaviour. Nevertheless, many synaesthetes still experienced colours though they didn't necessarily match the primed digit. CFS experiments showed that the colour of a grapheme's concurrent, or whether the grapheme is presented in the correct or incorrect colour for that synaesthete, doesn't influence the time for conscious perception of a grapheme, even though colour words presented in the correct colour are perceived faster than those in the wrong colour. Phenomenological differences were compared to the behavioural measures using questionnaires modified using factor analysis (the R-RSPA and R-ISEQ). Overall, inducers must be seen consciously for them to bind with the concurrent, and experiencing the phenomenology of synaesthesia is not sufficient to behave like a synaesthete.
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Spiller, Mary Jane. "Mental imagery in synaesthesia." Thesis, University of East London, 2009. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3092/.

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The current thesis addressed the question of whether an internally generated mental image can elicit a concurrent in grapheme colour synaesthesia; although there is experimental and anecdotal evidence that this is the case, to date this had not been systematically explored. As there are purportedly distinct object-based and spatial-based imagery processes it was necessary to explore the role different imagery processes may play. In Experiment 1 synaesthetes and matched control groups completed a grapheme-based object-imagery task against congruently and incongruently coloured backgrounds. Four synaesthetes, but none of the control groups, showed an effect of colour on task performance. In Experiment 2 and 3 synaesthetes (and matched controls for Experiment 2) completed a grapheme-based spatial-imagery task, with either the stimuli or background colour manipulated as before. In each experiment colour was found to interact with grapheme presentation format for two different synaesthetes. Experiments 1-3 therefore provided support for the idea that an internally generated mental image can elicit a concurrent. Importantly, the results suggested a difference in the way the concurrent generated from object or spatial imagery processes influenced task performance. Consequently Experiments 4 and 5 used a battery of comparable imagery tasks that had either an object or spatial rate-limiting imagery process. Manipulation of the task background colour again showed the variety of effects the concurrent generated with these different imagery processes can have on task performance. Overall the results of these experiments suggest that a concurrent can be elicited from both object and spatial imagery processes; important individual differences were found, and individual performance varied between tasks, suggesting the possible role of strategy effects. Models of synaesthesia need to be able to explain these differences and further studies are needed to address this issue of task approach.
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Gould, Cassandra. "Individual differences in synaesthesia : qualitative and fMRI investigations on the impact of synaesthetic phenomenology." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51554/.

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Synaesthesia is a cognitive trait in which stimuli of one sensory modality are automatically and consistently experienced in conjunction with perceptions in a separate modality or processing stream. Investigations of synaesthesia may help determine the neural processing required in the generation of a conscious experience. In order to gain the most complete understanding of synaesthesia, we have applied an integrated neurophenomenological approach. In Chapter 2 we present an extended case study of spatial-form synaesthesia (SFS) phenomenology. This investigation goes significantly beyond the rudimentary accounts of provided elsewhere, and provides novel observations on inducer-concurrent relationships, suggesting that guided introspection techniques can provide neurobehaviourally relevant information. In Chapters 3-5 we investigate neural activity in grapheme-colour synaesthesia (GCS). In Chapter 3 we demonstrate that activation in colour selective areas during synaesthetic colour processing is dependent on individual differences in phenomenology, thereby reconciling previous attempts to replicate this key finding in the GCS literature. In Chapter 4 we find no evidence for trait level differences in context specific functional connectivity in GCS, however, we demonstrate that localisation of the synaesthetic concurrents modulate connectivity between colour and low-level visual areas. In 5 we replicate findings of trait level differences in resting state fronto-parietal networks, suggesting that the RFPN may be a significant network in aspects of the synaesthetic experience common to all participants. We demonstrate that localisation of concurrents also modulates resting state visual networks, whilst automaticity of concurrents modulates parietal networks. Both Chapters 4 and 5 support a model of synaesthesia in which localisation of concurrents is modulated by bottom-up connectivity, between colour and early visual areas. This thesis demonstrates that individual differences in synaesthetic phenomenology significantly impact neural activity. We propose that future investigations place emphasis on the phenomenological experience of the participant in the interpretation of neural effects.
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Gray, Richard. "Synaesthesia : an essay in philosophical psychology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1723.

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We are sometimes led to a different picture of things when something unexpected occurs which needs explaining. The aim of this thesis is to examine a series of related issues in the philosophy of mind in the light of the unusual condition known to psychologists as ‘synaesthesia’. Although the emphasis will be on the philosophical issues a view of synaesthesia itself will also emerge. Synaesthesia is a distinct type of cross-modal association: stimulation of one sensory modality automatically triggers an additional phenomenal character of experience associated with a second sensory modality in the absence of any direct stimulation of the second modality. Chapter 1 introduces synaesthesia to a philosophical audience by outlining the early history of synaesthesia studies, by summarising contemporary research and by indicating areas of philosophical interest to be considered in the rest of the thesis. Chapter 2 uses synaesthesia to examine one important philosophical model of the mind, Fodor’s modularity hypothesis, and, in turn, investigates the nature of synaesthesia in the light of that model. Fodor claims that cognitive modules can be thought of as belonging to a psychological natural kind in virtue of their possession of most or all of nine specified properties. The most common form of synaesthesia possesses Fodor’s nine specified properties of modularity, and hence it should be understood in terms of an extra cognitive module, and thus as belonging to the abovementioned psychological natural kind. Many psychologists believe that synaesthesia involves a breakdown in modularity. A breakdown in modularity would also explain the apparent presence of the nine specified properties in synaesthesia. I discuss the two concepts of function which underlie the respective theories, defending the breakdown thesis, arguing, in any case, that properties deriving from evolutionary history should also be used to decide between the two theses and thus ultimately membership of a psychological natural kind such as Fodor suggests. The argument is then used to respond to two challenges to the notion of a psychological natural kind. Chapter 3 focuses on the phenomenal character of synaesthetic experience. Externalists about the phenomenal character of experience tend to argue that the character of perceptual experience is to be explained either by the properties objects present to percipients, or by the properties objects are represented by percipients as having. Some internalists argue that there is a need to postulate hrther properties of the individual - in other words, qualia - to account for the individuation of the character of perceptual experience. The existence of additional phenomenal characters of experience in synaesthesia, which cannot directly be explained by reference to features of objects, suggests the existence of extra qualia and thus the presence of qualia in normal perception. The aim of this chapter is to meet the challenge presented by synaesthesia and the extra quaZia argument, and contrariwise, use synaesthesia as a way of fbrther clarifjmg the merits of the respective externalist positions. In the previous chapters the locution of ‘coloured hearing’ will have been adopted. Occasionally the process underlying synaesthesia is described as one of ‘hearing colours’. Chapter 4 rejects the latter usage. In so doing it focuses on the place of synaesthesia vis-a-vis normal perceptual processes. Considerations from previous chapters are further developed in order to shed light both on the metaphysical individuation of perceptual modalities and on how we know the distinctive perceptual modalities. Given the actual content of our concepts of perceptual modalities, it is argued that the actual world is one in which even synaesthetes are unable to hear colours. Consideration is given as to whether there is a possible world in which people could hear colours. The justification of the usage of ‘coloured-hearing’ then leads to a discussion of the relative importance of the individuating conditions of modes of perception. The thesis focuses largely on coloured hearing. What merits the preceding considerations have might be supported if they can be generalised. Chapter 5 goes a small way in that direction.
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Janik, Agnieszka. "Synaesthesia : mechanisms and broader traits." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/18236/.

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Synaesthesia is a condition in which perceptual or conceptual stimulation in one modality leads to additional experiences within the same or different modality. In grapheme-colour synaesthesia achromatic letters or numbers elicit secondary synaesthetic colour experiences while in mirror-touch synaesthesia observing touch to another person results in tactile sensations on a synaesthete’s own body. This thesis examines broader differences in personality and social perception associated with synaesthesia and investigates neural mechanisms underlying social perception in typical adults. Firstly, an association between grapheme-colour synaesthesia and personality traits was examined which revealed an altered personality profile in this group. Additionally grapheme-colour synaesthesia showed typical and (in some cases) superior social perception abilities relative to typical adults which most likely reflects wider perceptual differences related to sensitivity to high spatial frequency information previously found in this group. Secondly, an investigation into the wider consequences of mirror-touch synaesthesia revealed that the presence of this form of synaesthesia is linked with lower levels of alexithymia relative to typical adults and lower interoceptive sensitivity relative to grapheme-colour synaesthetes and controls. This thesis also explored the neural mechanisms underlying social perception in typical adults using non-invasive transcranial alternating current stimulation. This revealed that enhancing occipital gamma oscillations facilitates facial anger perception offering a new avenue to examine the neural mechanisms underlying social perception advantage in synaesthesia. Current findings are discussed in the context of existing literature on synaesthesia and social perception.
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Watson, Marcus Robert. "Synaesthesia and learning : a bidirectional relationship." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44736.

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I present new evidence about the relationships between learning and synaesthesia, particularly grapheme-colour synaesthesia, in which individuals experience letters and numbers as coloured. As part of the largest survey of synaesthetic tendencies ever performed, I show that second language acquisition can act as a trigger for the development of synaesthesia, such that children who learn a second language in grade school are three times more likely to develop synaesthesia as native bilinguals. I also demonstrate that previous reports of a sex bias in synaesthesia are almost certainly due to response and compliance biases, rather than any real differences in the prevalence of synaesthesia between men and women. In a detailed examination of the influences of learning on synaesthetic experiences, I show that synaesthetic colours are influenced by knowledge about letters’ shapes, frequencies, alphabetical order, phonology, and categorical qualities. Finally, I demonstrate that synaesthesia can itself be exploited in learning. All these results are presented as supporting a developmental learning hypothesis of synaesthesia, in which synaesthesia develops, at least in part, because it is useful.
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Steven, M. S. "Neuroimaging of multisensory processing and synaesthesia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410663.

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Field, Deborah. "Patterns of lexical synaesthesia in Japanese." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132952.

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The phenomenon known as Tsynaesthesia' -- "the translation of attributes of sensation from one sensory domain to another" (Marks, 1975:303) .-- is one of the most intriguing products of the human mind, and represents one area of study which extends into a number of academic disciplines, including physiology, psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, and linguistics. Perhaps the most commonplace of all synaesthetic correspondences is the conjunction of the sense modality of sight (colour) and touch (thermal sensations): Blue and green are often perceived and described as cool colours , red and yellow as warm.
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Lee, Madeleine. Synaesthesia. Singapore: Firstfruits, 2008.

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Simon, Baron-Cohen, and Harrison John E, eds. Synaesthesia: Classic and contemporary readings. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell, 1997.

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Fingerhut, Jörg. Habitus in habitat III: Synaesthesia and kinaesthetics. Bern [Switzerland]: Peter Lang, 2011.

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1909-1992, Bacon Francis, ed. After Francis Bacon: Synaesthesia and sex in paint. Farnham, Surrey, England, UK: Ashgate, 2012.

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Yeung, Vernie. Electronic synaesthesia: Including cd disc : M. A. Communication Design Thesis 2003. London: Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 2003.

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Bright colors falsely seen: Synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

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Day, Sean Andrew. Synaesthetic metaphors in english. Ann Arobor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1995.

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Scent upon a Southern Breeze: The synaesthetic arts of the Deccan. Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2018.

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and, Bruno. Synaesthesia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198725022.003.0006.

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Synaesthesia is a curious anomaly of multisensory perception. When presented with stimulation in one sensory channel, in addition to the percept usually associated with that channel (inducer) a true synaesthetic experiences a second percept in another perceptual modality (concurrent). Although synaesthesia is not pathological, true synaesthetes are relatively rare and their synaesthetic associations tend to be quite idiosyncratic. For this reason, studying synaesthesia is difficult, but exciting new experimental results are beginning to clarify what makes the brain of synaesthetes special and the mechanisms that may produce the condition. Even more importantly, the related phenomenon known as ‘natural’ crossmodal associations is instead experienced by everyone, providing another useful domain for studying multisensory interactions with important implications for understanding our preferences for products in terms of spontaneously evoked associations, as well as for choosing appropriate names, labels, and packaging in marketing applications.
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Banissy, Michael, Roi Cohen Kadosh, and Clare Jonas, eds. Synaesthesia. Frontiers Media SA, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88919-559-6.

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Masciandaro, Nicola. "Synaesthesia." In Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory, 179–201. Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2018]: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315665733-9.

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Cook, Amy. "Linguistic Synaesthesia." In Shakespearean Neuroplay, 23–41. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230113053_2.

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Zhao, Qingqing. "Introduction to Synaesthesia." In Embodied Conceptualization or Neural Realization, 1–17. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9315-1_1.

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Gammack, John G. "Synaesthesia and knowing." In Advances in Consciousness Research, 157–70. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aicr.35.15gam.

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Simner, Julia. "Synaesthesia in colour." In New Directions in Colour Studies, 309–18. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.167.35sim.

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Kay, Christian, and Catherine Mulvenna. "Synaesthesia, neurology and language." In Progress in Colour Studies, 203–24. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.pics2.18kay.

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Huang, Chu-Ren, and Jiajuan Xiong. "Linguistic synaesthesia in Chinese." In The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics, 294–312. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315625157-20.

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Popova, Yanna. "Image schemas and verbal synaesthesia." In Cognitive Linguistics Research, 395–420. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110197532.5.395.

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Sasamoto, Ryoko. "Synaesthesia, Onomatopoeia, and Food Writing." In Onomatopoeia and Relevance, 117–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26318-8_5.

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Tajiri, Yoshiki. "The Prosthetic Body and Synaesthesia." In Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body, 75–108. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230624962_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Synaesthesia"

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Hinckley, Ken, and Hyunyoung Song. "Sensor synaesthesia." In the 2011 annual conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979059.

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Voong, Michael, and Russell Beale. "Music organisation using colour synaesthesia." In CHI '07 extended abstracts. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240913.

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Evans, Brian. "Synaesthesia, data mapping and synchronicity." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1186223.1186397.

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Yin Xiaochen, Shu Xiaoyong, Zhu Ying, and Jiang Deming. "Multimodal interface design based on synaesthesia effect." In 2009 IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/caidcd.2009.5375211.

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Gao, Yan, Xinyu Ma, and Lingyun Xie. "The visual synaesthesia analysis of Chinese traditional music aesthetics." In The Second International Conference on Image, Video Processing and Artificial Intelligence, edited by Ruidan Su. SPIE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2547497.

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Dzhafarova, O. S. "Features of the development of artistic synaesthesia of younger schoolchildren." In General question of world science. НИЦ «Л-Журнал», 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/gq-31-03-2018-29.

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Gong, Xiaodong, and Yue Ji. "The Application of Visual Translation in Synaesthesia to Product Design." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002027.

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The purpose of the study is to extract and construct the development and method of synaesthetic visual translation in product design, provide new design thinking, and enrich user experience. This paper employs a mixed method of case study, practice, fuzzy evaluation, etc. Through case analysis, the manifestation of visual translation in product design is summarized, the translation law between vision and other senses is abstracted, a method to achieve visual translation is built, and research conclusions are verified through design practice. Based on fuzzy evaluations, the development of synaesthetic visual translation is established, and a reusable visual translation design method is proposed, which enriches product connotation while improving comprehensibility, and realizes a multi-dimensional and in-depth user experience.
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Yamaguchi, Yuki, Kuniaki Noda, Shun Nishide, Hiroshi G. Okuno, and Tetsuya Ogata. "Learning and association of synaesthesia phenomenon using deep neural networks." In 2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sii.2013.6776750.

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Zhou, Ying. "A Contrastive Analysis of Synaesthesia Between Sensorial Adjectives in English and Chinese." In 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.322.

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Zayed, Nourhan, Brad Goodyear, and Michael Smith. "Is undiagnosed synaesthesia a confounding factor in the interpretation of MRI images?" In 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iembs.2008.4650527.

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Wundram, Ina. A cross-class survey of synaesthesia in high school students and its biocultural implications. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.2154.

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