Developing SynaesthesiaNicolas Rothen, Julia Simner, Beat Meier Frontiers Media SA, Jul 24, 2015 - Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry - 173 pages Synaesthesia is a condition in which a stimulus elicits an additional subjective experience. For example, the letter E printed in black (the inducer) may trigger an additional colour experience as a concurrent (e.g., blue). Synaesthesia tends to run in families and thus, a genetic component is likely. However, given that the stimuli that typically induce synaesthesia are cultural artefacts, a learning component must also be involved. Moreover, there is evidence that synaesthetic experiences not only activate brain areas typically involved in processing sensory input of the concurrent modality; synaesthesia seems to cause a structural reorganisation of the brain. |
Contents
a primer | 6 |
The immune hypothesis of synesthesia | 8 |
Is synesthesia more common in patients with Asperger syndrome? | 11 |
Serotonergic hyperactivity as a potential factor in developmental acquired and druginduced synesthesia | 23 |
Probing the neurochemical basis of synaesthesia using psychophysics | 36 |
an ERP study | 45 |
Impaired acquisition of novel graphemecolor correspondences in synesthesia | 55 |
toward a comprehensive model of graphemecolor association | 61 |
An extended case study on the phenomenology of sequencespace synesthesia | 91 |
a commentary on Gould et al 2014 An extended case study on the phenomenology of spatial form synaesthesia | 107 |
a critical review and novel theory | 109 |
insights from training studies | 124 |
Defining trained graphemecolor synesthesia | 137 |
Can graphemecolor synesthesia be induced by hypnosis? | 144 |
67 years to 1011 years | 153 |
Developmental aspects of synaesthesia across the adult lifespan | 162 |
Semantic mechanisms may be responsible for developing synesthesia | 72 |
Toward a visuospatial developmental account of sequencespace synesthesia | 85 |
Back Cover | 174 |