The Frog Who Croaked

Blue
Aliens in the
Family
Greg Ellard,
Jessicka Doheny,
Rachel Cuttle, and
Sorcha Doyle.
Synaesthesia
“A condition in which a sensory experience
normally associated with modality occurs
when another modality is stimulated to
certain extent such as cross modality
experiences are perfectly normal; e.g. low-
pitched tones gives sensations of softness or
fullness while high-pitched tones feel brittle
and sharp, the color blue feels cold while red
feels warm.”
“However, the term is usually restricted to the
unusual cases in which regular and vivid
cross-modality experiences occur.”
In other words. . . . .
Synaesthesia is where peoples senses can get
a bit mixed up. It is like an extra sense.
There are at least sixty- one types of
Synaestheasia, two–sensory and multiple-
sensory.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEiOrxhtNQ
Two-Sensory
Syanesthesia
This is where two senses cross. It can be
undirectioal e.g. a word produces a colour, or
bi-directional e.g. a word can produce both a
colour and a sound.
A smell produces the perception of a colour ->
Coloured-Olfaction
A taste produces the perception of colour ->
Coloured-Gustation
A sound produces the perception of colour ->
Coloured-Hearing or Chromaesthesia
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Multiple-Sensory
Synaesthesia
The experience of numbers that have their own
colours -> Coloured-Numbers
The experience of letters as colours ->
Coloured Letters
The experience of colours when the individual
hears words -> Coloured-Graphemes
The experience of numbers as shapes ->
Shaped-Numbers
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Coloured-
Letters/Numbers
Aliens in the Family
Written by Jamie Ward, and published 2008.
“People with synesthesia experience the
ordinary world in extraordinary ways.”
Most synesthetes don’t realise their condition,
just as in the case of Debbie she did not
discover she had synesthesia until her mid-
twenties.
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Sometimes synesthesia rules a persons life
without them ever realising it; they will often
name their children to fit their synesthesia
and choose their partners on this basis.
“The fact that synesthesia runs in families
doesn’t automatically make it genetic.”
Although, there is scientific evidence of a
genetic link to synesthesia.
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Even though synesthisa runs in families it
doesn’t mean all family members have the
same form.
In the case of the identical twins Mary and
Jacqueline, they had similar types of
synesthesia but saw different colours.
E.g Mary sees “a” as green and Jacqueline
sees it as red.
Yet again they didn’t realise they had
synesthesia until they were in their early
twenties.
Today’s Lecture
The most common forms of synesthesia, and
the ones we will be looking at are:
Grapheme -> colour synesthesia -> multiple-
sensory
Chromaesthesia -> coloured hearing -> two-
sensory
Coloured Gustation -> Taste as a colour ->
two-sensory
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Grapheme
This is where the individual experiences colour
when they hear words.
Chromaesthesia
This is where an non visual stimuli evokes the
perception of a colour.
Such as seeing colour as you hear music.
Coloured Gustation
When some synesthetes eat the food evokes
the perception of colour.
This is one of the tests for synesthesia we
came across:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39TiACe4mw