Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia Links

• The Synesthetic Experience MIT's extensive site which includes factual information, individual anecdotes, and interactive activities which simulate synesthesia.
  
  
• Sam Scott: Synesthesia Synaesthesia is a little-known and rather poorly-understood condition in which two or more senses mingle into one. This site answers basic questions and is attractively designed.
  
• CNN - The strange world of synesthesia - Nov. 25, 1995 Imagine a world in which the senses fuse together; where sounds are seen and words and aromas have color; where the number 10 can be smelt, and fuchsia has flavor.
  
• Weird Science The experiences of synesthetes, who are often dismissed as having vivid imaginations, could reveal new things about perception.
  
• Synaesthesia This site is a compilation of the information available on synaesthesia from both other internet sites and traditional sources.
  
• Synaesthesia An introduction to the phenomenon of synaesthesia, with an emphasis on the personal experience of the author.
  
• Synesthesia Red rings louder in your eye and a taste of blue lingers at your fingertips. You have a neighbor whose consistently green voice grates against his consistently deep -blue suit. Nobody seems to understand.
  
• synaesthesia An odd brain experience frequently linked with artistic genius is synaesthesia - "seeing" sounds, "hearing" colours. some have claimed the cross-referencing of one sense to another as a source of inspiration for creative brilliance. in fact it may be an "ability" any number of us have, artists or not.
  
• Synaesthesia A mailing list for synesthetes has archives here, as well as a list of synesthete authors and composers, and the experiences of synesthetic individuals.
  
• Synesthesia - A Real Phenomenon? Or Real Phenomena? Synesthesia may encompass a series of related physical phenomena in the brain.
  
• Chaos Cubed- Synesthesia Synesthesia links.
  
• Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology Richard E. Cytowic's keystone article. Synesthesia might tell us a great deal about consciousness, the nature of reality, and the relationship between reason and emotion.
  
• Synesthesia A few articles about synesthesia. A part of Webcam.org's "Synthetic Synesthesia" section.
  
• Is There a Normal Phase of Synaesthesia in Development? Maurer's developmental theory of synaesthesia states that all human neonates have synaesthesia, but that by about 4 months of age the senses have become modularized to the extent that we no longer have synaesthesia.
  
• History of Synaesthesia "Although medicine has known about synaesthesia for three centuries, it keeps forgetting that it knows."
  
• Synesthesia and Artistic Experimentation By the mid-nineteenth century synesthesia had intrigued an art movement that sought sensory fusion. The union of the senses appeared more and more frequently in the writings of musicians and visual artists.
  
• Synesthesia An interview with Dr. Richard Cytowic and Carol Steen. ABC Radio National - Health Report Transcript - 8 July 1996
  
• Synesthesia - the mixing of the senses The term synesthesia means the joining of senses, and the implication is that environmental exposure instigates the preferred development of sensory biased areas; at birth differentiation is minimal.