Interdisciplinary Study Of Synesthesia

Synesthesia is when any two or more senses of the human body or perceptual pathways are linked. When one sense is activated so is another. So when you are eating, you may feel as if you are tasting a color instead, or when you see a color you may think of a shape. It affects 1 out of 2,000 peopled believed to be genetic, it is demonstrated more commonly in females and individuals who are left handed. Synesthesia is not diagnosed as a disease, those affected usually have average intelligence and no greater risk of mental disorders.

Per “The Synesthesia Project”, we do not know how many people have synesthesia. The most common statistic is 1 in every 2,000 people. But these numbers aren’t static, because since scientists developed an interest in the condition, many synesthetes are now self-reporting.

Some aspects of the second article that was chosen are difficult to interpret. This includes the use of two hypotheses in which one reason for better memory performance by synesthetes can be explained by cues involved in encoding and retrieval. Another alternative structural organization hypothesis concedes that there is some other mechanism that helps synesthetes recall more information. According to the findings, it was not clear which hypothesis was more strongly supported as some verbal tests agreed with the former and the visuo-spatial ones with the latter. It is also unclear which aspect the authors were trying to assess since there existed a shifting emphasis from how synthetes encode information to how they recall it.

Both videos discuss the “disorder” known as synesthesia, where a person’s senses are “jumbled” together. The brain mixes the senses of sight, sound, taste, touch, and/or smell together, and adds another dimension to the life the person has. There isn’t one exact type of stimulation a person experiences; some of the abilities they have include seeing colors when they hear a musical note, tasting shapes rather than food, the sound of words leaving a bad taste in the mouth, or even visualizing a 3-D calendar when thinking of a day or month. So, the use of one

Herbert Kleber , feels as though if drugs were to become legalized it would cause more people to want to use it and that legalizing it wouldn’t do anything. Author Gorman, feels as though that restricting drug use has been ineffective and that since the laws have become more stringent more people use the illegal substances.

Filled with sensorial imagery, John Keats’s use of the senses in “Ode to a Nightingale” leads to synesthetic description in order to convey what he is feeling and what he is imagining. This poem is based in a desire for escape and this is achieved through an imaginative bower in the speaker’s mind. The speaker is taken to this bower “on the viewless wings of Poesy” (Ode 928) whose song has put him into such a sublime state that his senses are heightened; due to these heightened sense, the speaker turns to synesthesia. Synesthesia, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “the use of metaphors in which terms relating to one kind of sense-impression are used to describe sense-impressions of other kinds” (OED). This form description is used to describe the speakers the sensations he is feeling and the images in his imagination. The imagination is where Keats’s bower is located which affects the definition of the bower. A bower, in the poetic sense, is supposed to be “an idealized abode, not realized in any actual dwelling” (OED) which is the reason the speaker flies there to escape, due to its idealized state. However, Keats’s ideas on the imagination affect the bower and ultimately lead to the speaker’s choice to leave the bower and return to reality. Through this journey, synesthesia is only seen in the instances of intense sensation in the speaker’s sublime state; meaning, when the speaker

This quote is something that every magician would swear by. This is just because that is exactly how magic works. Its all deception. That is the main tool magicians use they distract the eyes and trick the ears so the brain has to believe the ears as to what has happened. Or the other way around they distract the ears and trick the eyes so they can do what they need.

I clicked the link, and it took me to a Wikipedia article about a mental condition where people’s senses get crossed, and they can hear colors, or smell words, or see colored letters and numbers.

Does this number 5 appear as a color? Or does the word “calm” give the taste of something soothing? No? That is ok; all that means is a rare Neurological disease known as Synesthesia is not present. Synesthesia is Greek for “syn=together and aisthesis=perception” (Cytowic, 1995) and by definition means “joined sensations” (Ciccarelli & White, 2012, p.88), meaning that two of peoples 5 senses are connected together. Normally this is a fusion of sound and sight, but this can also include taste, touch, and smell for some people. Let’s delve deeper and learn more about what Synesthesia is exactly.

People who are synesthete can see things or make them feel a certain way when they smell something. Usually, multiple people with synaesthesia see generally the same thing, with some variations. What they see is determined by how much or little they like the thing the smell is associated with.

Slavery has numerous of components that deeply help open up the very meaning of race. However, many of these topics usually do not reveal a side of slavery that happens on a regular basis and that is sexual abuse. People seem to avoid sexual abuse because it is challenging to provided evidences that the abuse is not consensual. However, this topic strongly impacts the way slaves life is shape daily. Therefore,sexual abuse will help deepen our understanding of the institution of slavery and its effect on our society as a whole by revealing that slaves must faces constant superiority and jealousy from their masters in order to survive.

Berit Brogaard defines a psychological disorder as “psychological dysfunction in an individual that is associated with distress or impairment and a reaction that is not culturally expected.” (Brogaard). Synesthesia is a neurological condition more than a psychological disorder as it does not inhibit mental functions. Synesthesia is a condition in which a trigger of one sense would result in a response from another sense. Synesthesia is involuntary and is not something that a person can just choose to have. The reactions are the same every time and are highly vivid and memorable. The condition dates back to Ancient Greece where synesthetes would write about their condition. Scientists first began to examine it in the early 1800s, but did not

The first known performative act of magic occurred around 2700 B.C. with the simple “ball and cup” trick. This conjuring act, and the evolution of many others, that utilize the “sleight of hand” (i.e., carefully performed fine motor skills meant to deceive) capitalize on a slew of cognitive psychological principles (Macknik, Randi, Robbins, Teller, Thompson, & Martinez-Conde, 2008; Barnhart, 2010). Further, psychological and neuroscientific fascinations in the workings of magic are not limited to the 20th and 21st centuries. Psychologists of the 19th century, like Joseph Jastrow, began to recognize the link between the performance of magic and the empiricism of psychology as means for establishing an argument for the use of the “science” of magic to study deception and other perceptual cognitive paradigms in more realistic environments. Moreover, these

Magic or unexplained science, some would say, is the human brain’s way of understanding what appears impossible. Magic is also a way one can feel special because magic allows things to appear out of thin air or happen instantly and everyone wishes this were true. Everyone person who has an encounter with magic, deals with magic in different ways, yet there can be similarities. Similarities can be seen in the novels, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, and The Magician by Raymond E. Feist. Each novel has a main character who becomes deeply involved with magic, but with different end games. When dealing with magic, one must learn the significance of it which in turn helps the wielder of magic or reader feel as if the impossible has become possible.

The world is currently home to around 7 billion people, but only a century ago there were only about 1.6 billion people living on it. It is estimated that the world population will soar to approximately 9 or 10 billion within the next forty years (Lambert 6). Along with the increasing global population, climate change and water scarcity are also burdening the survival of our planet (Lambert 5). The FAO has warned that agriculture must produce 70% more food within the next 40 years to feed our expanding population, but the world’s resources and land are dwindling as quickly as the population is expanding (Lambert 5). The world urban populations have been increasing consistently and are