Interactions between sound and vision:

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Interactions between sound and vision
Investigations into auditory synaesthesia
Linda Sigmundsdottir Dept. of Psychology,
Macquarie University
Supervisors Prof. Bill Thompson
(Macquarie University) Dr. Anina Rich (MACCS)
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Synaesthesia and Sounds

• Synaesthesia joined sensation
• Many different forms
• Inducer concurrent synaesthetic experience
• Little research on auditory synaesthesia
• Psychophysical relationships

Synaesthete
Control
Pitch frequency
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What can Synaesthesia tell us?

• Multisensory interactions in perception
• Cross-modal integration of information
• Auditory processing
• Music cognition

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What am I doing?

• Characterising auditory synaesthesia
• What are the inducing stimuli and concurrent
  experiences?
• Synaesthesia and timbre
• Conscious awareness and attention in auditory
  synaesthesia