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  2. Synesthesia in literature - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which one or more sensory modalities become linked. However, for over a century, synesthesia has also been the artistic and poetic devices that try to connect the senses. Not all depictions of synesthesia in the fictional works are accurate.

  3. Synesthesia in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. There are many occurrences of synesthesia in books, television and film.

  4. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia as psychological health and balance: Painting Ruby Tuesday by Jane Yardley, and A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass. Literary depictions of synesthesia are criticized as often being more of a reflection of an author's interpretation of synesthesia than of the phenomenon itself. [citation needed]

  5. Dr. Hersh: Synesthesia occurs when more than one sense is ...

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    Synesthesia is not uncommon; it's estimated that about one of every 25 people (4%) have some form of it. Since to them this is the normal way they perceive the world, they may not mention it ...

  6. Synesthesia in art - Wikipedia

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    The phrase synesthesia in art has historically referred to a wide variety of artists' experiments that have explored the co-operation of the senses (e.g. seeing and hearing; the word synesthesia is from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation") in the genres of visual music, music visualization, audiovisual art, abstract film, and intermedia ...

  7. The Man Who Tasted Shapes - Wikipedia

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    In the second part of the book, entitled "Essays on the Primacy of Emotion", Cytowic presents a number of his reflections on what the phenomenon of synesthesia means for traditional neuroscientific and neurological practice, how anomalous findings can lead to major scientific discoveries, and the role that emotion plays in our understanding of ...

  8. Synaesthesia (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that, in the tradition of Romantic poetry, the sensory transfer consisting in the synaesthesic metaphor tends to be from a lower (less differentiated) sense to a higher sense.

  9. History of synesthesia research - Wikipedia

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    Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. For example, in a form of synesthesia known as grapheme-color synesthesia, letters or numbers may be perceived as inherently colored. Historically, the most commonly described form of synesthesia (or synesthesia-like mappings) has been between sound and ...