Synesthesia

was very cool. I watched it several times and even though I knew the sound was "ba" all the time, when I looked at the movements of the man lips I heard "fa". Very interesting how our brains interpret the senses. The interview with a woman with synesthesia was very interesting to me. I can't imagine how is to live with the sense of linking one sensory percept to another. I would love to have this ability at least for a day to experience what synesthetes experience daily. The experiment with…

According to Martin Lindstrom in “You Love Your iPhone. Literally.” he mentions how people characterize the intense consumer’s devotion to the iPhone as an addiction. First, Lindstrom supports his opinion by pointing out a recent experiment that neuroimaging technology suggested that drug related terms such as “addiction” or “fix” aren’t accurate words we should use to describe our most cherished personal relationships. With functional magnetic resonance imaging tests his team saw that the…

In the book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman, the intelligent neuroscientist, talks about many different issues. Throughout the book, he discusses brain damage, synesthesia, criminal justice, artificial intelligence, optical illusions and more. A theme Eagleman uses is through the phrase "team of rivals" from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. In his model of the brain, our unconscious mind is made up of different separate processes; each one has the potential to pull us in…

1.) This poem by Emily Dickinson describes the scene and atmosphere when someone is dying. The speaker’s final moments of life are portrayed as somber and quiet, so quiet that the speaker can evidently hear a “fly buzz,” which is a type of onomatopoeia and helps to emphasize the silence of the room. Another figurative devise that is employed to further establish the overwhelming silence is the use of a simile when comparing the stillness between the “heaves of storm” which would be relatively…

causes problems in sensory perception, mood and thought patterns. These problems tend to manifest as hallucinations. When on LSD perceptions can often involve all or only one of the five senses. LSD mainly causes visual hallucinations. It can cause synesthesia, which is blending of the senses, such as hearing colors and seeing sounds. Using LSD is called "tripping" and users can get a good (heaven) or bad (hell). When LSD activates the serotonin receptors in the brain, these receptors help with…

good idea. Because, now he can do things on his own without help by just visualizing his surroundings. Tenberken’s story is similar to Torey’s I think. They both had control over internal visions but Tenberken’s is a bit more advanced. She has synesthesia, which is when things she sees is associated with a color. Which is pretty cool. Even though she’s blind, she can see color because of the condition. I feel like it’s a subtle loophole to blindness in her case. I feel like Tenberken and Torey…

together, full of laughter, full of tears," (Michelle A. Moran). This quote proves that the theme is spend time with the family that is caring because there is a lot of memories to remember in the past years. In the book A Mango-Shaped Space, Mia has synesthesia, which makes her see all of these color and shapes that is what causes Mia to struggle in some of her classes. On the other hand, in the book Sisters, Raina is the oldest and wanted to have a sister in her family. The theme of both A…

Assuming the numbers are right (and I sincerely hope they're not), in a randomly selected crowd of ten thousand Americans, I am the only one who can read. It's mind boggling; my nine year old self had to sit down when she first learned it, mere hours after meeting the eyes of the astonished boy who was told that the note he was looking for was a B-flat. I have words running through my mind constantly, small phrases or whole pages on a loop, complete with percussion, until another strain catches…

Music has affected people in an interesting way, ever since music was first created. Whether it’s because of the synesthesia people might experience as babies, the inner desire to express our emotions in the best way possible, or simply because it helps us focus, all humans, even infants, enjoy music. The only thing to figure out is how music is affecting mankind. To begin with, music can dramatically affect your emotions. Hard beats give us humans pleasure to listen to, and composers with…

filling out a diagram explain the different parts of the inner ear. In the next class we got a taste of physiology as we talked about sound and perception and even dabbled in a little neuroscience as we listened to firsthand accounts of people with synesthesia. My physics professor, Dr. Ruiz often likes to argue that while people don’t consider science to be creative it can be just as creative as art, I didn’t believe that in high school but I do…