Sensory blending : on synaesthesia and related phenomena / Ophelia Deroy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deroy, Ophelia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synesthesia.

Senses and sensation.

Perceptual disorders.

Perceptual Disorders.

Sensation.

Medical Subjects:

Perceptual Disorders.

Sensation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

On synaesthesia and related phenomena

On synesthesia and related phenomena

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Synaesthesia is a strange sensory blending - synaesthetes report experiences of colours or tastes associated with particular sounds or words. This volume presents new essays by scientists and philosophers exploring what such cases can tell us about the nature of perception and its boundaries with illusion and imagination.

Contents:

Introduction / Ophelia Deroy

Part I. Defining and Measuring Synaesthesia. 1. Synesthesia, Then and Now / Lawrence E. Marks ; 2. Synesthesia vs. Crossmodal Illusions / Casey O'Callaghan ; 3. Synesthetic Perception as Continuous with Ordinary Perception, or: We're All Synesthetes Now / Jonathan Cohen ; 4. Reporting Color Experience in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia / Yasmina Jraissati

Part II. Challenges Raised by Synaesthesia. 5. Synesthesia and Consciousness / Myrto Mylopoulos and Tony Ro ; 6. Synesthetic Binding and the Reactivation Model of Memory / Berit Brogaard ; 7. Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of Synaesthesia / André J. Abath ; 8. When is Synaesthesia Perception? / Mohan Matthen ; 9. Can Synaesthesia Present the World as it Really Is? / Michael Sollberger

Part III. Boundaries of Synaesthesia. Unconscious, Acquired, and Social Varieties of Sensory Unions. 10. Questioning the Continuity Claim / Ophelia Deroy and Charles Spence

11. The Induction of Synaesthesia in Non-Synaesthetes / Devin B. Terhune, David P. Luke, and Roi Cohen Kadosh ; 12. Patrolling the Boundaries of Synaesthesia / Malika Auvray and Mirko Farina ; 13. Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia / Frédérique de Vignemont ; 14. Personification, Synaesthesia, and Social Cognition / Noam Sagiv, Monika Sobczak-Edmans, and Adrian L. Williams

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 20, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-176760-3