Sunday, March 6, 2011

Synesthesia

Synesthesia: a neurotically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.
Ordinal-Linguistic Personification : numbers, days of the week and months of the year take on personalities. 
Number-Form Synesthesia:  number, days of the week and or months of the year are seen imprecise locations in space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form


Sound-Color Synesthesia: certain sounds trigger the viewing of colors or simple shapes
http://www.etown.edu/CETL.aspx?topic=An+fMRI+Study+of+Sound-Color+Synesthesia

Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: words cause specific taste sensations in the mouth. 

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