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Synesthesia [electronic resource] : A Union of the Senses / by Richard E. Cytowic.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Springer Series in NeuropsychologyPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1989Edition: 1st ed. 1989Description: XIV, 354 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461235422
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Introduction 1 -- Historical Background -- How This Work Got Started -- Criticism of Experiential Responses -- The Ghost in the Machine -- How Does Mind Arise from Matter? -- How Materialism Transcends Itself -- Synesthetes as Cognitive Fossils -- 2 Synesthetes Speak for Themselves 23 -- Synesthetes Speak for Themselves -- Similarity of Stories -- Range of Synesthetic Performance -- Synesthesia as an Unelaborated Percept -- Validity, Constancy, and Limits to Manipulation of the Parallel Sense -- Psychological Influence and Stigma -- What Is Synesthesia Good for? -- Familial Cases -- 3 Theories of Synesthesia: A Review and a New Proposal 61 -- Diagnostic Criteria for Synesthesia -- What and Where is the Link? -- Theories of the Mechanism of Synesthesia -- Proposal for a Synesthetic Mediator -- Operationalizing the Theories of Synesthesia -- 4 Overlaps: To What Is Synesthesia Similar? 91 -- Phenomena Similar to Synesthesia -- Supporting Evidence for Anatomical Localization -- A Disconnection Syndrome for Synesthesia: Analogy to Migraine Theory -- Relation of Synesthetic Perceptions to Klüver’s Form Constants -- Conclusion -- 5 The Neural Substrates of Synesthesia -- Conceptualization of Neural Tissue -- Achromatopsia -- Knowing and the Limbic System -- The Triune Brain -- Conclusion -- 6 Synesthesia and Language -- The Semantic Differential -- Language and Cross-Modal Associations -- Synesthesia as a Disconnection -- Language and Consciousness -- Language and Electrical Stimulation of the Brain -- 7 Synesthesia and Personality -- Number Forms -- Synesthetic Forms -- Psychological Parameters of Synesthetes -- Family Cases (Pedigrees) -- Clairvoyance and Other Unusual Experiences -- 8 Synesthesia and Art -- Geometry, Color, and Form -- Divine Proportion and Dynamic Symmetry -- Color -- Art and Synesthesia -- 9 What isReal? -- Colored Illusions: Color Constancy and Colored Shadows -- Retinex Theory of Color Vision -- Phantom Vision and Blindsight -- Optic Imagery and the Gestaltists -- Microgenetics -- 10 Conclusions.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Synesthesia comes from the Greek syn (meaning union) and aisthesis (sensation), literally interpreted as a joining of the senses. Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information from one sense is joined or accompanies a perception in another. Dr. Cytowic reports extensive research into the physical, psychological, neural, and familial background of a group of synesthets. His findings form the first complete picture of the brain mechanisms that underlie this remarkable perceptual experience. His research demonstrates that this rare condition is brain-based and perceptual and not mind-based, as is the case with memory or imagery. Synesthesia offers a unique and detailed study of a condition which has confounded scientists for more than 200 years.
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1 Introduction 1 -- Historical Background -- How This Work Got Started -- Criticism of Experiential Responses -- The Ghost in the Machine -- How Does Mind Arise from Matter? -- How Materialism Transcends Itself -- Synesthetes as Cognitive Fossils -- 2 Synesthetes Speak for Themselves 23 -- Synesthetes Speak for Themselves -- Similarity of Stories -- Range of Synesthetic Performance -- Synesthesia as an Unelaborated Percept -- Validity, Constancy, and Limits to Manipulation of the Parallel Sense -- Psychological Influence and Stigma -- What Is Synesthesia Good for? -- Familial Cases -- 3 Theories of Synesthesia: A Review and a New Proposal 61 -- Diagnostic Criteria for Synesthesia -- What and Where is the Link? -- Theories of the Mechanism of Synesthesia -- Proposal for a Synesthetic Mediator -- Operationalizing the Theories of Synesthesia -- 4 Overlaps: To What Is Synesthesia Similar? 91 -- Phenomena Similar to Synesthesia -- Supporting Evidence for Anatomical Localization -- A Disconnection Syndrome for Synesthesia: Analogy to Migraine Theory -- Relation of Synesthetic Perceptions to Klüver’s Form Constants -- Conclusion -- 5 The Neural Substrates of Synesthesia -- Conceptualization of Neural Tissue -- Achromatopsia -- Knowing and the Limbic System -- The Triune Brain -- Conclusion -- 6 Synesthesia and Language -- The Semantic Differential -- Language and Cross-Modal Associations -- Synesthesia as a Disconnection -- Language and Consciousness -- Language and Electrical Stimulation of the Brain -- 7 Synesthesia and Personality -- Number Forms -- Synesthetic Forms -- Psychological Parameters of Synesthetes -- Family Cases (Pedigrees) -- Clairvoyance and Other Unusual Experiences -- 8 Synesthesia and Art -- Geometry, Color, and Form -- Divine Proportion and Dynamic Symmetry -- Color -- Art and Synesthesia -- 9 What isReal? -- Colored Illusions: Color Constancy and Colored Shadows -- Retinex Theory of Color Vision -- Phantom Vision and Blindsight -- Optic Imagery and the Gestaltists -- Microgenetics -- 10 Conclusions.

Synesthesia comes from the Greek syn (meaning union) and aisthesis (sensation), literally interpreted as a joining of the senses. Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information from one sense is joined or accompanies a perception in another. Dr. Cytowic reports extensive research into the physical, psychological, neural, and familial background of a group of synesthets. His findings form the first complete picture of the brain mechanisms that underlie this remarkable perceptual experience. His research demonstrates that this rare condition is brain-based and perceptual and not mind-based, as is the case with memory or imagery. Synesthesia offers a unique and detailed study of a condition which has confounded scientists for more than 200 years.

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