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Synaesthesia is a rare experience in which one property of a stimulus evokes a secondary experience that is not typically associated with the first (e.g. hearing words can evoke tastes). In recent years a number of studies have highlighted the authenticity of synaesthesia and attempted to use the experience to inform us about typical processes in perception and cognition. This Research Topic aims to bring together research on synaesthesia and typical cross-modal interactions to discuss the mechanisms of synaesthesia and what it can tell us about typical perceptual processes. Topics will include, but not be limited to, the neurocognitive mechanisms that give rise to synaesthesia; the extent to which synaesthesia does / does not share commonalities with typical cross-modal correspondences; broader cognitive and perceptual consequences that are linked to synaesthesia; and perspectives on the origins / defining characteristics of synaesthesia. We welcome novel experimental research articles using a range of methods (e.g. behavioural; brain stimulation; brain imaging), reviews and methods papers, and opinion papers that raise important questions for the field.

Synesthesia. --- Synaesthesia --- Intersensory effects --- Psychology --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism --- synaesthesia --- veridical mapping --- synesthesia --- multisensory --- sensory substitution

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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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Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus elicits an additional subjective experience. For example, the letter E printed in black (the inducer) may trigger an additional colour experience as a concurrent (e.g., blue). Synaesthesia tends to run in families and thus, a genetic component is likely. However, given that the stimuli that typically induce synaesthesia are cultural artefacts, a learning component must also be involved. Moreover, there is evidence that synaesthetic experiences not only activate brain areas typically involved in processing sensory input of the concurrent modality; synaesthesia seems to cause a structural reorganization of the brain. Attempts to train non-synaesthetes with synaesthetic associations have been successful in mimicking certain behavioural aspects and posthypnotic induction of synaesthetic experiences in non-synaesthetes has even led to the according phenomenological reports. These latter findings suggest that structural brain reorganization ‡a may not be a critical precondition, but rather a consequence of the sustained coupling of inducers and concurrents. Interestingly, synaesthetes seem to be able to easily transfer synaesthetic experiences to novel stimuli. Beyond this, certain drugs (e.g., LSD) can lead to synaesthesia-like experiences and may provide additional insights into the neurobiological basis of the condition. Furthermore, brain damage can both lead to a sudden presence of synaesthetic experiences in previously non-synaesthetic individuals and a sudden absence of synaesthesia in previously synaesthetic individuals. Moreover, enduring sensory substitution has been effective in inducing a kind of acquired synaesthesia. Besides informing us about the cognitive mechanisms of synaesthesia, synaesthesia research is relevant for more general questions, for example about consciousness such as the binding problem, about crossmodal correspondences and about how individual differences in perceiving and experiencing the wo ‡a rld develop. Hence the aim of the current Research Topic is to provide novel insights into the development of synaesthesia both in its genuine and acquired form. We welcome novel experimental work and theoretical contributions (e.g., review and opinion articles) focussing on factors such as brain maturation, learning, training, hypnosis, drugs, sensory substitution and brain damage and their relation to the development of any form of synaesthesia.

Synesthesia. --- Phenomenology --- Neuropsychiatry. --- Psychology. --- synaesthesia --- development --- Grapheme colour --- Immune System --- drugs --- training --- congenital --- neurotransmitter --- autism

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Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining how vision, hearing, touch, and the structures of the embodied imagination and memory thicken and make tangible an adaptation's source. In doing so, this book not only conceives adaptation as an intertextual layering of source material and adaptation, but also an intersubjective and textural experience that includes the materiality of the body.

Film adaptations --- Philosophy. --- Film adaptation, film phenomenology, perception, synaesthesia, embodied spectatorship.

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Welche Wirkungen hat die Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs im Interferenzfeld von Bild und Klang hervorgerufen? Wie haben sich innovative, kreative, phantasievolle, gelegentlich auch irritierende und verstörende klangfarbliche oder farbklangliche Neukompositionen von dem großen Kirchenmusiker inspirieren lassen? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes befassen sich aus verschiedenen disziplinären Perspektiven mit dem Verhältnis von Bildlichem und Klanglichem in der Rezeption des Bach'schen Werkes und der Musiktraditionen des Barock. Über das Visuelle und Akustische hinaus kommen dabei auch Dimensionen des Synästhetischen und Performativen zur Sprache.

Religion; Bild; Klang; Musik; Synästhesie; Johann Sebastian Bach; Barock; Performanz; Kultur; Religionswissenschaft; Musikwissenschaft; Körper; Image; Sound; Music; Synaesthesia; Baroque; Performance; Culture; Religious Studies; Musicology; Body --- Baroque. --- Body. --- Culture. --- Image. --- Music. --- Musicology. --- Performance. --- Religious Studies. --- Sound. --- Synaesthesia.