Sensory Blending
On Synaesthesia and related phenomena
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 April 2017
- ISBN 9780199688289
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 240x176x29 mm
- Weight 644 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1. Defining and measuring synaesthesia
Synaesthesia, then and now
Synesthesia vs. crossmodal illusions
Synesthetic perception as continuous with ordinary perception, or: We're all synesthetes now
Reporting color experience in grapheme-color synesthesia: on the relation between color appearance, categories, and terms
Part 2. Challenges raised by synaesthesia
Synesthesia and consciousness: exploring the connections
Synesthetic binding and the reactivation model of memory
Merleau-Ponty and the problem of synaesthesia
When is Synaesthesia Perception?
Can synaesthesia present the world as it really is?
Part 3. Boundaries of synaesthesia: Unconscious, acquired and social varieties of sensory unions
Questioning the continuity claim: what difference does consciousness make?
The induction of synaesthesia in non-synaesthetes
Patrolling the boundaries of synaesthesia: a critical appraisal of transient and artificially-induced forms of synaesthetic experiences
Mirror touch synaesthesia: intersubjective or intermodal fusion?
Personification, synaesthesia and social cognition
