Linguistic Synesthesia

Day, Sean A.

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“…Synaesthetic experiences occur in 2-4% of the population (Simner et al, 2006). To date, over 60 different forms of synaesthesia have been identified (Day, 2015), while new varieties of the condition continue to be added. The most commonand most studiedform is grapheme-colour, in which colours are evoked by achromatic text (Chiou & Rich, 2014).…”

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Synaesthesia lost and found: two cases of person‐ and music‐colour synaesthesia

Farina

Mitchell

Roche

2017

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Synaesthesia is a developmental condition involving cross-communication between sensory modalities or substreams whereby an inducer (e.g. a sound) automatically evokes a concurrent percept in another modality (e.g. a colour). Whether this condition arises due to atypical structural connectivity (e.g., between normally unconnected cortical areas) or altered neurochemistry remains a central question. We report the exceptional cases of two synaesthetes - subjects AB and CD - both of whom experience coloured auras around individuals, as well as coloured perceptions in response to music. Both subjects have, in recent years, suffered a complete loss or reduction of their synaesthetic experiences, one (AB) through successive head traumas, including a lightning strike, followed by a number of medications, and the other (CD) while taking anxiolytic medications. Using semi-structured interviews and data from the Synaesthesia Battery and a colourpicker task, we characterize the phenomenological characteristics of their pre-loss synaesthesia, as well as the subsequent restoration of each subject's synaesthetic experiences (in the months post-trauma for AB, and after cessation of medication for CD). Even after years of suppression, the patterns of associations were highly consistent with those experienced pre-injury. The phenomenological experience of synaesthesia can, thus, like most conscious experiences, be modulated by pharmacologically diverse medications or head injury. However, the underlying neural substrates mediating specific synaesthetic pairings appear remarkably 'hard-wired' and can persist over very long periods even under conditions that alter or completely suppress the conscious synaesthetic experience itself.

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Synaesthesia lost and found: two cases of person‐ and music‐colour synaesthesia

Farina

Mitchell

Roche

2017

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Synaesthesia lost and found: Two cases of person- and music-colour synaesthesia

Farina

Mitchell

Roche

2016

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Synaesthesia is a developmental condition involving cross--communication between sensory modalities or substreams whereby an inducer (e.g. a sound) automatically evokes a concurrent percept in another modality (e.g. a colour). Whether this condition arises due to atypical structural connectivity (e.g., between normally unconnected cortical areas) or altered neurochemistry remains a central question. We report the exceptional cases of two synaesthetes -subjects AB and CD -both of whom experience coloured auras around individuals, as well as coloured perceptions in response to music. Both subjects have, in recent years, suffered a complete loss or reduction of their synaesthetic experiences, one (AB) through successive head traumas, including a lightning strike, followed by a number of medications, and the other (CD) while taking anxiolytic medications. Using semi--structured interviews and data from the Synaesthesia Battery and a colourpicker task, we characterise the phenomenological characteristics of their pre--loss synaesthesia, as well as the subsequent restoration of each subject's synaesthetic experiences (in the months post-trauma for AB, and after cessation of medication for CD). Even after years of suppression, the patterns of associations were highly consistent with those experienced pre--injury. The phenomenological experience of synaesthesia can, thus, like most conscious experiences, be modulated by pharmacologically diverse medications or head injury. However, the underlying neural substrates mediating specific synaesthetic pairings appear remarkably "hard--wired" and can persist over very long periods even under conditions that alter or completely suppress the conscious synaesthetic experience itself.

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Linguistic Synesthesia

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Synaesthesia lost and found: two cases of person‐ and music‐colour synaesthesia

Synaesthesia lost and found: two cases of person‐ and music‐colour synaesthesia

Synaesthesia lost and found: Two cases of person- and music-colour synaesthesia

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