For my response paper, I decided to reflect on Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a nerve condition where a person experiences two senses at one time. This condition happens when one sense triggers another one. For example, if someone sees an image they will be able to hear what they see within the image. This phenomenon’s name derives from the Greek, meaning "to perceive together", comes in many varieties (Carpenter, 2001). Some synesthetes hear, smell, taste or feel pain in color. Others may taste shapes, and still others perceive written digits, letters and words in color. Music can be colored, letters and figures can be associated with genders and personality, and forms can have tastes.
Before watching the video clip assigned on synesthesia, I had never heard about it. To be honest it seems a bit odd. The first example used in the synesthesia video clip was voice. The fact that I could possibly taste someone’s voice as well as see it baffles me. It is an interesting concept though. I have never met anyone who has synesthesia which probably makes sense because such a small part of the population has it. Research suggests that about one in 2,000 people are synesthetes, and some experts …show more content…
Synesthesia taps into a lot of other domains that are more familiar to many psychologists. It tells us something about the nature of perception and what makes things perceptually like one another. Synesthesia may help us to understand how the concept of similarity is embedded within the nervous system (Carpenter, 2001). Although scientists have developed methods of testing and profiling synesthetes much of the theoretical framework used to understand cross-modal sensory perception remains speculative (Rockland, 2016). This condition is so unique even scientists question it, which is why I find synesthesia so interesting. There are still many unanswered
Before watching the video clip assigned on synesthesia, I had never heard about it. To be honest it seems a bit odd. The first example used in the synesthesia video clip was voice. The fact that I could possibly taste someone’s voice as well as see it baffles me. It is an interesting concept though. I have never met anyone who has synesthesia which probably makes sense because such a small part of the population has it. Research suggests that about one in 2,000 people are synesthetes, and some experts …show more content…
Synesthesia taps into a lot of other domains that are more familiar to many psychologists. It tells us something about the nature of perception and what makes things perceptually like one another. Synesthesia may help us to understand how the concept of similarity is embedded within the nervous system (Carpenter, 2001). Although scientists have developed methods of testing and profiling synesthetes much of the theoretical framework used to understand cross-modal sensory perception remains speculative (Rockland, 2016). This condition is so unique even scientists question it, which is why I find synesthesia so interesting. There are still many unanswered