SYNESTHESIA

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SYNESTHESIA

• Synesthesia  
• Synesthesia at it simplest it is defined as the
  combining of one or more senses. 
• An involuntary joining of senses
• Perceived as real and vivid when in reality it
  is an internal perception
• Hard to comprehend because we are taught to
  separate the function of the senses
• Many artists and musicians claim to experience
  synesthesia
• Primarily occurring in the frontal lobes of the
  brain
• Predominately seems to occur more in females and
  left-handed people
• Only about 1 in 25,000 are believed to
  experience involuntary synesthesia   
• What is synesthesia, though? 
• Imagine sitting alone in the quite, reading your
  favorite book and as you scan across the page
  instead of seeing black and white letters you see
  bursts of blue, yellow, green and orange. Your
  Ss are red, your Es are purple every page
  holds a rainbow for you. I cant even imagine
  such an occurance. Is is a gift or a
  hinderance? 
• One person who experiences synesthesia claimed
  that this occurance is part of my love for
  speech and language    
• Are you born with synesthesia? 
• Synesthesia can be a controversial term. Richard
  Cytowic believed that synesthesia was an
  involuntary experiences of cross-modal
  association. He claimed that the deliberate
  mixing of senses, as done by musicians and
  artists to increase learning and as a form of
  statement in their work was sensory fusion, not
  synesthesia. This idea, that by for example,
  combing color and sound you can increase ones
  learning of music is not a completely new
  phenomenom. Youve heard of the Mozart effect?
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A

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A

• (With Low Sound)
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A

• (With low sound)
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Here is another example with a higher tone and
brighter colors to enhance the simple stimuli
(the letter G).

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G

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G

• (High tone in the background)
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G

• (High tone in the background)
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Summary

• There has been minimal research done and there
  are some conflicts about what synesthesia really
  is.
• The previous examples displayed the enhancement
  of a simple stimuli (letter A G) through
  the use of sound and color (synesthesia)
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• Web links
• www.Ihavenoclue.com