How can our sensory channels influence other sensory channels?
Our senses and how we perceive certain stimuli is an important factor when we try to make sense of the world around us. The Stimulus around us sends information to different parts of our brain in order for us to feel, sense, taste or hear the things that we do. Even more interesting though is how our sensory channels can influence another sensory channel unconsciously. For instance, like in a movie theater when you are watching the movie you perceive the sound to be in front of you when actually the sound is coming from behind you from the speakers in the back. This is an example of what we perceive may not be actual reality. While external influences can affect our sensory channels that can shape our perception, our individual biological differences can shape what we experience as well (Sagiv, N., 2013). Most people share a common trait, we perceive things in a …show more content…
For instance like in Sean Day's case, who is a linguistic professor in Taiwan who tastes in multicolored. He not only sees colors internally like blue for steak, but he can also see colors externally in front of him when the food is more complex tasting. Like seeing a bubbly bright orange glob a few feet in front of him while he is eating a plate of steamed squid (Carpenter, S., 2001). In the case of a patient who had “ticker-tape” synesthesia, they would visualize every word they hear in black subtitle font in front of them. Another rare form of synesthesia is “social synesthesia” in which the person identifies each number and letter with a personality of its own (Sagiv, N., 2013). Research has shown that synesthetes left-right hemispheres work slightly differently than others. They tend to show more confusion with mathematical problems, but a better memory for geometrical figures than people without synesthesia. (Aleman, A. et al.,
Our senses and how we perceive certain stimuli is an important factor when we try to make sense of the world around us. The Stimulus around us sends information to different parts of our brain in order for us to feel, sense, taste or hear the things that we do. Even more interesting though is how our sensory channels can influence another sensory channel unconsciously. For instance, like in a movie theater when you are watching the movie you perceive the sound to be in front of you when actually the sound is coming from behind you from the speakers in the back. This is an example of what we perceive may not be actual reality. While external influences can affect our sensory channels that can shape our perception, our individual biological differences can shape what we experience as well (Sagiv, N., 2013). Most people share a common trait, we perceive things in a …show more content…
For instance like in Sean Day's case, who is a linguistic professor in Taiwan who tastes in multicolored. He not only sees colors internally like blue for steak, but he can also see colors externally in front of him when the food is more complex tasting. Like seeing a bubbly bright orange glob a few feet in front of him while he is eating a plate of steamed squid (Carpenter, S., 2001). In the case of a patient who had “ticker-tape” synesthesia, they would visualize every word they hear in black subtitle font in front of them. Another rare form of synesthesia is “social synesthesia” in which the person identifies each number and letter with a personality of its own (Sagiv, N., 2013). Research has shown that synesthetes left-right hemispheres work slightly differently than others. They tend to show more confusion with mathematical problems, but a better memory for geometrical figures than people without synesthesia. (Aleman, A. et al.,