Constraints on Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia

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Running Head: Redefining Synaesthesia? Redefining Synaesthesia?

Defining synaesthesia.

Studies investigating developmental synaesthesia have sought to describe a number of qualities that might capture in behavioural terms the defining characteristics of this unusual phenomenon. The task of generating a definition is made more difficult by the fact that any description of synaesthesia must be broad enough to capture the 61 different variants of the condition already reported to da...

Reflections on Synaesthesia, Perception, and Cognition

In this paper, we reflect on three long-standing problems: The relationship between the physical worlds and the perceived world, accounting for individual differences in the way in which we perceive the world around us, and the problem of understanding other minds. We begin by examining the relationship between synaesthesia and hallucinations, as well as between hallucinations and normal percep...

Correcting misconceptions about synaesthesia.

In the annals of cognitive neuroscience there are examples of fantastic memory abilities (e.g., Luria, 1968) that befuddle the vast majority of us with normal mnemonic skills. Although such feats have yet to be demonstrated in other species, extraordinary memory may not be unique to humans. One possible example comes from a study by Inoue and Matsuzawa (2007), which showed that following extens...