Synaesthesia - A Window into Perception, Thought and Language

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V.S. Ramachandran

Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, No. 12, 2001, pp. 3-34

V.S. Ramachandran and E.M. Hubbard 
Synaesthesia - A Window into Perception, Thought and Language
 
 

Abstract: We investigated grapheme-colour synaesthesia and found that: 
(1) The induced colours led to perceptual grouping and pop-out, 
(2) a grapheme rendered invisible through 'crowding' or lateral masking induced synaesthetic colours--a form of blindsight--and 
(3) peripherally presented graphemes did not induce colours even when they were clearly visible. 

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Author Profile Page timms | October 31, 2010 10:53 PM | Reply

I didn't read all of this but what I did was interesting. I came across synesthesia in other parts of this course and find it interesting. Here they discuss how it may come about in the brain, different types, and relate to different things like language.

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