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For example, the name Daniel, when spoken to the painter and synaesthete Elizabeth Stewart-Jones, "...is deep purple, blue, and red, and is shiny" but the letter "H" is also purple, while "U" is yellow etc. Elizabeth is just one of many of those who have been assessed by John Harrison and colleagues and is a typical sufferer in that she is female, has had the condition as long as she can remember and her colour associations do not vary. As a condition, it does not really cause suffering and there are no other disturbing side effects. Although it is often embarrassing for synaesthetes when they first discover that the rest of the world does not share their experience and can even regard them with suspicion and disbelief.
John Harrison can measure a synaesthete's ability to describe accurately their colour experience for specific sounds. Investigation clearly shows that the brain activity of a synaesthete during their synaesthetic experience is different to that of a non-synaesthete. The problem is understanding the cognition that links the brain to the behaviour. In order to explain the phenomenon Harrison takes us on a fascinating tour of the brain and of what we do and do not understand about its workings. Inevitably, in trying to explain such a complex subject there is a problem with the technical language but the glossary helps explain everything unfamiliar from AC-PC line to Wernicke's area and, there are references, further reading and an index. As John Harrison shows and indeed subtitles his book, synthaesia is the strangest thing. -- Douglas Palmer
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"A new look at the strange world of synaesthesia."--Time Magazine
"A treat.... investigates...brains that have a weird and unexplained propensity to mix up senses." New Scientist
"[P]rovides a useful account of a phenomenon that in recent years has come to receive increasing serious attention from cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists alike. Harrison presents the material in a way that makes it accessible to novices as well as experts."--Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books
For the vast majority of us sensation is neatly divided into touch, vision, hearing, taste and smell-the five senses. Read the first page
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