Richard Cytowic's book The Man Who Tasted Shapes may be purchased from Amazon.Com Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology A Review of Current Knowledge Richard E. Cytowic 4720 Blagden Terrace, NW Washington DC 20011-3720 USA neuroman@glib.org Copyright (c) Richard E. Cytowic 1995 PSYCHE, 2(10), July 1995 http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html KEYWORDS: consciousness, ...

Syn-es-the-sia n. Physiol. Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point of stimulation, as of a color from hearing a certain sound (fr. Gk, syn = together + aisthesis = to perceive). Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense. In addition to being involuntary, this additional perception is ...

HOME The website is currently being constructed, but we wanted to start to provide you with information. The Second National Meeting of the American Synesthesia Association Will Be Held at the University of California in San Diego, May 17-19, 2002. Due to the requests for the opportunity to present we are instituting a Call for Abstracts. If you would like to present an academic paper or a ...

Ever taste a shape, or smell a color Neurologist explores strange world of synesthesia November 25, 1995 Web posted at: 7:45 a.m. EST From Correspondent Ann Kellan ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- 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. That's the world of synesthesia -- loosely ...

Which shape does the year have Which days are the biggest ones How does Monday taste Everybody perceives the world differently and processes sensations in an individual way. Some people have their own definite orders in their mind. Can sequences like numbers, months, days of the week be depicted in definite structures and shapes Are numbers or letters naturally connected with certain ...

Synesthesia - the mixing of the senses Recent neurological studies suggest the possibility that the executive areas of the human brain, primarily in the frontal lobes, manifest a high degree of sensory integration. This integration is found apparantly throughout the neocortex, both at the neuron level (Stein & Meredith 1993) as well as in groups of neurons and large cortical areas, for example ...