Synesthesia

having dinner at a friend’s house, Richard Cytowic's obsession and work with the condition known as synesthesia began. Although scientists have known about the condition for hundreds of years, the condition has remained a medical mystery. Extensive experiments with more than forty synesthetes, although the novel is focused around two of his close friends, led Cytowic to an understanding of synesthesia as well as a new conception of the organization of the mind, in which he highlights the…

Rachel Kim Professor Eun Joo Kim Perspective on Humanities; Embodied Language October 14th, 2016 Synesthesia; rational decision v emotional decision Emotion drives choices. When one is at a fork of decision, they have to make either rational decision or emotional decision. “Rational decision making is a multi-step process, from problem identification through solution, for making logically sound decisions”(Bound 1). However, emotional decision’s driving force is emotion at the time and…

Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is interesting and highly informative both to a synesthete looking for more answers and to a passerby that may never have heard of the condition before. It breaks synesthesia down over the course of its chapters, beginning with examining each different major type of synesthesia and all of the intricacies that come with it. It addresses how these connections can integrate themselves into the concepts of a non-synesthete’s brain…

The article that was chosen for this assignment to be updated by a more recent article was the research study conducted on how colour based synesthesia affects memory performance on a given task (Smilek, Dixon, Cudahy, & Merikle, 2002). A 21 year old female, C, was the synesthete in this study who claimed to remember all of the digits in four lists that were presented to a university class, as a memory span exercise, with perfect accuracy while the other students could only remember six of the…

Carolina, the correlated nostalgia brings forth an uprising of memories, revelations, and confessions. Her most prominent attribute is her condition of synesthesia. As the novel’s motif, it directs the thoughts that arise amongst these discoveries thus defining the nature of the story. Bitter in the Mouth offers insight on how the…

“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…

A staggering amount of people live in the world; however, no human is identical to another. Human beings are the most complex creatures on the earth. A myriad of researchers, scientists, and psychiatrists have been searching for an answer to the complexity of mankind. Eventually, a multitude of clues led them to a reasonable answer: the brain. With that information, they started experimenting on the human brain. Psychiatrists, along with many others, have researched several treatments for mental…

and “breaking” suggest the hot summer days that cause wooden floors to crack. Hayden also uses alliteration throughout the poem. In instances like line 2, “put his clothes on in the blueblack cold”, the alliteration is used in combination with synesthesia to fully describes the coldness. Again in line 14, Hayden compares love and loneliness through the use of alliteration: “love’s austere and lonely…

appearance or intelligence wise. But what if all letters and words had a color and texture? Mia Winchell, 13 years old, lives with synesthesia in a book titled A Mango-Shaped Space. Synesthesia is the crossing of two or more senses, and there are many different versions of it. She faces various struggles as she takes on the confusing life of a young girl living with synesthesia, all while juggling school work, friend drama, and other typical teenage debacles. Once she faces a traumatic…

appearance or intelligence wise. But what if all letters and words had a color and texture? Mia Winchell, 13 years old, lives with synesthesia in a book titled A Mango-Shaped Space. Synesthesia is the crossing of two or more senses, and there are many different versions of it. She faces various struggles as she takes on the confusing life of a young girl living with synesthesia, all while juggling school work, friend drama, and other typical teenage debacles. Once she faces a traumatic…