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  2. Synesthesia in fiction - Wikipedia

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    It is also detailed that her synesthesia converts sound to smell and color to sound. In the NBC science fiction series Heroes, the deaf character Emma (played by Deanne Bray) suddenly begins to see sounds as waves of color. Holding the cello in her hands, she senses vibrations as sounds which converts to a synesthetic experience of colors.

  3. Synesthesia in literature - Wikipedia

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    Fictional works that have main characters with synesthesia and non-fiction books to non-specialist audiences reflect the condition's influence in popular culture and how non-synesthetes view it. Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which one or more sensory modalities become linked.

  4. Synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    6.3 Science. 6.4 Literature. 7 Research ... Author and synesthete Pat Duffy describes four ways in which synesthetic characters have been used in modern fiction. [120 ...

  5. Wednesday Is Indigo Blue - Wikipedia

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    Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is a 2009 non-fiction book written by Richard Cytowic and David Eagleman documenting the current scientific understanding of synesthesia, a perceptual condition where an experience of one sense (such as sight) causes an automatic and involuntary experience in another sense (such as hearing). [1]

  6. A Mango-Shaped Space - Wikipedia

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    A Mango-Shaped Space is Mass's fourth fiction novel. The book received the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award in 2004. [1] The novel has since been nominated for, and received, a number of other awards. [2] The hand lettering on the cover is by Billy Kelly. The book is recommended for grades 5–8.

  7. Cretien van Campen - Wikipedia

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    Van Campen was editor of the Leonardo online bibliography Synesthesia in Art and Science and founder and web editor of Synesthetics Netherlands, a non-profit organization, hosting e.g. the Netherlands web community of synesthesia. He started editing during his studies as an editor of Psychopolis, an academic magazine of theoretical psychology.

  8. The Man Who Tasted Shapes - Wikipedia

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    Cytowic describes how an article about his work on synesthesia in the tabloid The National Enquirer, a publication which is "not known to help one's career", [7] led to his first contacts with synesthetes beyond MW [8] These personal accounts of synesthesia, described here in more autobiographical style, also form the basis of Cytowic's more ...

  9. Neural basis of synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, synesthesia may arise through "disinhibited feedback" or a reduction in the amount of inhibition along feedback pathways (Grossenbacher & Lovelace 2001).It is well established that information not only travels from the primary sensory areas to association areas such as the parietal lobe or the limbic system, but also travels back in the opposite direction, from "higher order ...