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- Title
Synaesthesia.
- Authors
Pearce, J. M. S.
- Abstract
Synaesthesia is the intriguing, involuntary experience of feeling one sensation in response to a different sensory stimulus. Recognised since described in 1890 by John Locke and clarified by Galton in the 1880s, it has been analysed in the last 50 years. Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is the commonest form, but many other sensory linkages are reported. Experiments show that it is a genuine immediate perception, not merely a memory or learned association. Many of the mechanisms posited are based on indirect methods, and we know little of the neurophysiological mechanisms. Copyright © 2007 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
LOCKE, John, 1632-1704; S. Karger AG; PSYCHOLOGY; MEMORY; SYNESTHESIA; INTERSENSORY effects
- Publication
European Neurology, 2007, Vol 57, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0014-3022
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000098101