learning pack 2

Question 1

define synaesthesia

Answer 1

involuntary joining of two or more senses, in which real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense.
the additional perception regarded by the synaesthete is regarded as real, often outside the body

Question 2

what type of people often have synaesthesia

Answer 2

artists

Question 3

inducer

Answer 3

the stimulus out there in the world, such as linguistic stimuli being the most common for syntesthetes (numbers, letters, words)

Question 4

concurrent

Answer 4

the sensation caused when seeing the inducer stimulus, like colour + shapes. For example, a grapheme-colour synaesthete may perceive the letter “a” as red.

Question 5

photism

Answer 5

colour that is perceived upon seeing a grapheme

Question 6

projector synaesthetes

Answer 6

syntesthetes that see letters or words or numbers as being coloured, when they are actually not.

Question 7

associators synaesthetes

Answer 7

syntesthetes that do not report seeing the letters/words as colours, but vividly associate them with a specific colour

Question 8

how many types of synaesthesia are there

Answer 8

over 60

Question 9

grapheme-colour synaesthesia

Answer 9

one of the most common types
tend to see/hear graphemes (letters/words/numbers) and experience them in colour
high-frequency graphemes w/ high frequency colour terms.

Question 10

number-form synaesthesia

Answer 10

involuntary visualises numbers mapped in space in front of them

Question 11

lexical-gustatory synaesthesia

Answer 11

involuntary taste certain flavours upon hearing/seeing/reading certain words.
combinations are random however flavours are those tasted in childhood + words that rhyme often have same taste.

Question 12

ordinal linguistic personification synaesthesia

Answer 12

aka sequence personality synaesthesia
involuntary associates sequences of stimuli (letters, days of week etc) with certain personality types.

Question 13

mirror-touch syntesthetes

Answer 13

experiences touch on their body when seeing touch on someone else

Question 14

what is the key diagnostic criterion for synaesthesia

Answer 14

based on their consistency of their synaesthetic experiences

1. individuals provide a set of their synaesthetic associations
2. they are given a surprise retest some time later
3. their consistency is compared to a group of non-syntesthetes, who are asked to invent associations + recall them by memory after a short interval
4. only syntesthetes who are more consistent than non-syntesthetes are considered to be genuine synaesthetes