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In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient-a synaesthete-experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for over a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses. This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann discusses divergent views of synaesthesia and eideticism over the last hundred years and explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception. Celebrated at the turn of the century as a uniquely creative form of consciousness, synaesthesia became embroiled in a debate between Romantics who championed it as a desirable harbinger of a new, more spiritual age, and positivists who denounced it as primitive and irrational. The author debunks Romantic notions of the transcendental nature of synaesthesia and shows that although novelist Vladimir Nabokov was a true synaesthete and eidetic, other individuals the Romantics considered synaesthetes were not. Drawing on studies of autism and hallucinogenic drugs, Dann offers new perspectives on synaesthesia and eideticism and how they relate to the evolution of human consciousness.

Synesthesia. --- Synesthesia --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Synaesthesia --- Intersensory effects --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism

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We are fascinated by what words sound like. This fascination also drives us to search for meaning in sound - thereby contradicting the principle of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign. Phonesthemes, onomatopoeia or rhyming compounds all share the property of carrying meaning by virtue of what they sound like, simply because language users establish an association between form and meaning. By drawing on a wide array of examples, ranging from conventionalized words and expressions to brand names and slogans, this book offers a comprehensive account of the role that sound symbolism and rhyme/alliteration plays in English, and by doing so, advocates a more relaxed view of the category 'morpheme' that is able to incorporate less regular word-formation processes.

English language --- Onomatopoeia. --- Sound symbolism. --- Phonetic symbolism --- Phonosemantics --- Symbolism, Phonetic --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Semiotics --- Symbolism --- Synesthesia --- Language and languages --- Sound symbolism --- Sounds, Words for --- Mimetic words --- Onomatopoeic words. --- Phonology --- Germanic languages --- Onomatopoeia --- Onomatopoeic words

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How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.

Synesthesia. --- Emotions and cognition. --- Cognition and emotions --- Cognition --- Synaesthesia --- Intersensory effects --- Psychology --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism

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Synaesthesia is a fascinating cognitive phenomenon where one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. For example, synaesthetes might perceive colours when listening to music, or tastes in the mouth when reading words. This book provides an insight into the idiosyncratic nature of synaesthesia by exploring its relationships with other dimensions of individual differences. Many characteristics of linguistic-colour synaesthetes are covered including personality, temperament, intelligence, creativity, emotionality, attention, memory, imagination, colour perception, body lateralization and gender. Aleksandra Rogowska proposes that linguistic-colour synaesthesia can be considered as an abstract form of a continuous variable in the broader context of cross- and intra-modal associations. There has been a resurgence of interest in synaesthesia and this book will appeal to students and scientists of psychology, cognitive science and social science, and to those who are fascinated by unusual states of mind.

Individual differences. --- Synesthesia. --- Synesthesia --- Individual differences --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Differences, Individual --- Difference (Psychology) --- Synaesthesia --- Intersensory effects --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism

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A biologically oriented introduction to synesthesia by the leading authority on the subject.

Synesthesia --- Senses and sensation. --- Physiological aspects. --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Synaesthesia --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Perception --- Intersensory effects --- Psychology --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism --- #PBIB:2002.4 --- Physiological aspects --- Music --- synesthesie --- muziek