Synaesthesia vs Synaesthetic - What's the difference?
synaesthesia | synaesthetic |
(neurology, psychology) A neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation.
* 1984 , (William Gibson), (Neuromancer) ,
* 2002', Sean A. Day, ''What '''synaesthesia is (and is not)'', Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin, Conn Mulvihill (editors), ''Language, Vision and Music: Selected Papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999 ,
* 2009 , Graham Richards, Psychology: The Key Concepts ,
The association of one sensory perception with, or description of it in terms of, another, unlike, perception that is not experienced at the same time.
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* 2007 , Boris Wiseman, Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics ,
A literary or artistic device whereby one kind of sensation is described in the terms of another.
* 2006 , Stephen Bowkett, Boys and Writing ,
* 2007 , Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones ,
(of a person) experiencing synaesthesia; describing a synaesthete.
:Liz said that her name looks yellow, so I assume she’s synaesethetic .
Pertaining to synaesthesia.
:One of the most common synaesthetic effects is to perceive each letter as having a colour.
As a noun synaesthesia
is (neurology|psychology) a neurological or psychological phenomenon whereby a particular sensory stimulus triggers a second kind of sensation.As an adjective synaesthetic is
(of a person) experiencing synaesthesia; describing a synaesthete.synaesthesia
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* (chiefly British) * synesthesia (US)Noun
(en noun)- Into her darkness, a churning synaesthesia , where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek.
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- For example, I myself have a type of synaesthesia : The sounds of musical instruments will sometimes make me see colors, about a yard in front of me, each color specific and consistent with the particular instrument playing.
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- Synaesthesia can occur particularly powerfully during mescalin and LSD intoxication, and is often given mystical significance.
- On a phonemic level, phenomena of synesthesia have often
been described and studied. Practically all children and a good
many adults—though for the most part adults will deny it—spon-
taneously associate sounds, whether phonemes or the timbre of
musical instruments, with colors and forms.
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- For one of the enigmatic features of synaesthesia is that, within a given cultural group, the kinds of associations made by specific subjects occur according to statistically verifiable recurring patterns. As Jakobson explains, ‘When we ask whether /i/ or /u/ is darker, testing such phonic oppositions as grave vs. acute, some of the subjects may respond that this question makes no sense to them, but hardly one will respond that /i/ is the darker of the two’ (1981:44).
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- Linking moods with colours is one example of synaesthesia .
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- it may be stated that the concept of synaesthesia is instrumental for understanding music videos, since videos are based on the soundtrack?s visual associations.28
