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Sensory Blending - On Synaesthesia and related phenomena (Hardcover)
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Sensory Blending - On Synaesthesia and related phenomena (Hardcover)
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Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist
Cytowic, a strange sensory blending. Synaesthetes report seeing
colours when hearing sounds or proper names, or they experience
tastes when reading the names of subway stations. How do these rare
cases relate to other more common examples where sensory
experiences get mixed - cases like mirror-touch, personification,
cross-modal mappings, and drug experiences? Are we all more or less
synaesthetes, and does this mean that we are all subjects of
crossmodal illusions? Could some apparently strange sensory cases
give us an insight into how perception works? Recent research on
the causes and prevalence of synaesthesia raises new questions
regarding the links between these cases, and the unity of the
condition. By bringing together contributions from leading
cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers, this volume considers
for the first time the broader theoretical lessons arising from
such cases of sensory blending, with regard to the nature of
perception and consciousness, the boundaries between perception,
illusion and imagination, and the communicability and sharing of
experiences.
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