Synesthesia

Synesthesia The Experience of Synesthesia Synesthesia is defined in Webster’s dictionary as “The Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point of stimulation, as of a color from hearing a certain sound”. This is a rather dry description of one of the most interesting topics in neuro-psychology. The ability to experience the feeling of shapes when viewing colors or hearing music is incredible. Dr. Richard Cytowic is possibly the most famous researcher on this topic and this paper will explore his findings as well as try to explain what it truly feels like to have Synesthesia in ones life. Synesthesia is an involuntary physical experience where the stimulation of one sense causes the perception in one or more senses. The experience in one sense would be considered the real perception. When the accompanying senses activate the perceived objects or shapes too seem just as real as the stimulus. The shapes that these people see do not necessarily occur with in the minds eye, but actually out in the viewer’s space. Therefore it is not an imagined shape but the hippocampus in the brain is making them visible (Goldstein, 1999). Richard Cytowic makes an interesting one, synesthesia, senses, point, stimulation, shapes, interesting, experience, cytowic, women, perception, occur, might, hearing, certain, whereas, vision, trend, topics, synesthetic, step, separation, sense, scan, real, psychology, pet, perceived, people, patterns, over, occurring, next, maurer