the process in which an individual experiences sensations in one sensory modality that are characteristic of another. (224)
Automatic link from one sense to another. Illustrated in apparently illogical 'sensory predicates' in expressions as 'I'll see how I feel about it'
The spontaneous association of a sensation being activated by external stimuli with another sensation of a different kind. For example, hearing a sound in association with the visual perception of a color, or smelling an odor in association with the tactile perception of a texture. See text, Chapter 7. See also, " hallucination," "hypnogogia" and "Perky effect."
A very close and quick overlap between a sequence of two or more representational systems such as “see/feel†(feelings overlap with what is seen) or “hear/feel†(feelings overlap with what is heard).
A state of mind used typically by those who have trouble with anesthesia and brought on by watching a Perry Como Christmas special without sound while a Butthole Surfers CD blares in the background; Warning: The ACLU is investigating this practice with regard to cruel and unusual behavior
A condition in which a sensory experience associated with one modality occurs when another modality is stimulated, for example, a sound produces the sensation of a particular color.
noun: literally, an overlapping of the senses, such as smelling a color; in seduction, a name given to a type of waking hypnosis in which a woman is put into a heightened state of awareness and told to imagine pleasurable images and sensations growing in intensity. The goal is to arouse her through suggestive, metaphorical talk, sensations, and imagery. Also: hyperemperia.
a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
A feeling evoked in one sense when another sense is stimulated. Examples of synesthesia include seeing the color yellow and smelling lemons, or smelling hot chocolate and feeling warm.
Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point of stimulation (eg. Perceiving a color from hearing a certain sound or smelling a certain aroma.) Term also used to describe the multisensory effects of aromas on impressions of sight, sound, taste and touch.
( The Taste of Blue) A condition in which the real information collected by one sense results additionally in a sensation or perception in a sense other than the one being stimulated. Thus, sounds can be perceived to have colors, colors can be perceived to have taste or smell, etc. Much like the character in The Taste of Blue, people who have synesthesia have been known to have eidetic memory—two well known cases of that sort are Valdimir Nabokov and the subject of A. R. Luria’s Mind of a Mnemonist.
A chemical "cross-wiring" of the brain circuits often due to the use of hallucinogens that results in colors being felt or heard and sound being tasted or seen.
Perceiving sensory data of one sense with another, e.g., seeing sounds or hearing colors.
The process of overlap between representational systems, characterized by phenomena like see-feel circuits, in which a person derives feelings from what they see, and hear-feel circuits, in which a person gets feelings from what they hear. Any two sensory modalities may be linked together.
Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae)—from the Greek syn- meaning union and aesthesis meaning sensation—is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space.
