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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Synesthesia"”.
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Redefining Color in Synesthesia
Grapheme-color synesthesia is a condition in which letters and numbers automatically trigger the sensation of specific colors in a person’s mind. Previous research on synesthesia revealed that certain letters seem to be associated with certain colors at a rate greater than chance. The studies that …
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Between Synergy and Synesthesia
We live in a world where most people are inundated with information on a global scale. The world has become smaller and more homogenous, whereas the social composition has become more and more complex, and extremely hierarchical. In such a society, the only way for one to define oneself could be to …
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Understanding Synesthesia and Impact for Learning
<p>Synesthesia is a neurological disorder that has to do with the ‘union of the senses.’ The literature reveals that students with synesthesia are affected with various degrees of severity. Students may hear a bell ring. Their brain is wired to take that sound and interpret it differently, through …
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Synesthesia and Perfect Pitch: A Possible Connection?
<p>Synesthesia -- the mixing of senses -- and perfect pitch -- auditary recognition of a musical pitch -- are two separate phenomena, ways of experiencing the world. These perceptions have been misunderstood for many years. They have bugged psychologists for ages, and scientific breakthroughs have …
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Behavorial Assessment of Synesthetic Perception: Color Perception and Visual Imagery in Synesthesia
… imagery and color discrimination ability in synesthesia. It was hypothesized that participants with synesthesia would have higher overall scores on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) and participants with colored synesthetic experiences would have lower Total Error Scores …
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Digital Synesthesia : using mobile technology and sensory substitution to interact with our world
Digital Synesthesia is the concept of using sensors and mobile technology to create a user experience that mimics the way people use their senses and enables the perception of information that is outside of our sensory spectrum. Modern technology already offers the ability to detect this …
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Music Notation-to-Color Synesthesia and Early Stages of Music Education: A Grounded Theory Study
<p>Problem</p> <p>Synesthesia is a neurological condition characterized by over-abundant neural connectivity between commonly highly specialized areas of the brain. The developmental form of the condition often results in automatic and consistent cross-sensory associations between perceived stimuli …
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Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen
… we explain the various accounts of people with synesthesia who literally see, hear, feel, taste, or smell colors when they listen to music? For synesthetes, a stimulus experienced in one of the five senses triggers a response in another sense. Although numerous types of synesthesia exist, I will …
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A new paradigm of perception
… synesthetes - people with the condition known as synesthesia, and who experience a reality with blended senses. Synesthesia is a condition in which stimuli in one sense involuntarily and automatically trigger perceptions in another sense. The unique experience that this extra layer of perception …
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Perspectives
… Architecture, along with the phenomenon of synesthesia, brings another level of understanding of the world. With architectural spaces that enclose and water, a sense can be amplified and advanced to the forefront of the accompanying senses. Through the perception of one sense through …
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Experience and perception
… The first section presents evidence from synesthesia suggesting that learning can influence letter-synesthesia pairings and that associative learning can affect relatively early visual processing. The second section examines the role of linguistic categorization in color judgments, finding …
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The Spatial Agency of the Catacombs: An Analysis of the Interventions of Damasus I (305-384)
… the space engaged the visitors’ senses to incite synesthesia and visceral seeing toward an encounter with the divine. These elements--catacomb-as-monument and synesthesia--provided visitors a shared visceral experience, which cemented a message of unity and a distinct collective identity for the …
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Synesthetic Sensor Fusion via a Cross-Wired Artificial Neural Network.
… neural networks cross-wired based on the synesthesia cross-wiring hypothesis. Motivation for the study was derived from the study of psychology, robotics, and artificial neural networks, with perceivable application in the domain of mobile autonomous robotics where sensor fusion is a …
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Spatial design thinking in the age of multimedia
… results in the realm of human cognitive faculty, synesthesia may hold the key to understanding a mechanism for thinking, cross-sensory perception and association involved in artistic and spatial creation. In addition, multimedia is the acting edge tool to support design methods and design …
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Musical form in non-narrative video
… signals, offering new possibilities of abstract synesthesia. Forms in which neither sight nor sound dominants facilitate a sensory experience of the content. A musical model for abstract form supports an effort to free video from the forward-impelled, linear narrative; to create a form which can …
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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
… influence one’s unconscious, including hashish, synesthesia, and memory, and finally, a visual comparison of a variety of artworks that illustrate the dream or include dream elements, including an in-depth look at French artists J.J. Grandville and Victor Hugo, who developed unique and innovative …
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The Influence of Literacy on the Lives of Twentieth Century Southern Female Minority Figures
… features a young Vietnamese woman coping with synesthesia and racial difference in North Carolina. These differences cause her to rely heavily on the written word, primarily letters, a form that is revealed to be incredibly significant to managing her entire life. Overall, the question that …
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Inferential Methods to Find Differences in Population of Graphical Models with Applications to Functional Connectomics
… and clinically relevant network differences in synesthesia, neurofibromatosis-1 and autism spectrum disorders.
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Inhabitance
… boundary between sight and sound. Reminiscent of Synesthesia (the condition where one sense triggers the experience of a different sense, such as sound triggering a sense of touch), the blurring of senses allows participants to experience a sense of “diminished consciousness of self”, and create …
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The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
… to the thesis of this manuscript would be synesthesia, and perhaps multi-modal sensory experiences that debatably cannot be illusory, such as the multi-modal experience of flavor. The two contemporary phenomena we examined are the utilization of sensoriums in the field of phenomenological …
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