The Frog Who Croaked Blue

The Frog Who Croaked Blue Aliens in the Family Greg Ellard, Jessicka Doheny, Rachel Cuttle, and Sorcha Doyle.

Synaesthesia “A condition in which a sensory experience

normally associated with modality occurs when another modality is stimulated to certain extent such as cross modality experiences are perfectly normal; e.g. lowpitched tones gives sensations of softness or fullness while high-pitched tones feel brittle and sharp, the color blue feels cold while red feels warm.” “However, the term is usually restricted to the unusual cases in which regular and vivid cross-modality experiences occur.” In other words. . . . .

Synaesthesia is where peoples senses can get

a bit mixed up. It is like an extra sense. There are at least sixty- one types of Synaestheasia, two–sensory and multiplesensory.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEiOrxhtNQ

Two-Sensory Syanesthesia This is where two senses cross. It can be

undirectioal e.g. a word produces a colour, or bi-directional e.g. a word can produce both a colour and a sound. A smell produces the perception of a colour ->

Coloured-Olfaction A taste produces the perception of colour -> Coloured-Gustation A sound produces the perception of colour -> Coloured-Hearing or Chromaesthesia  

Multiple-Sensory Synaesthesia The experience of numbers that have their own

colours -> Coloured-Numbers The experience of letters as colours -> Coloured Letters The experience of colours when the individual hears words -> Coloured-Graphemes The experience of numbers as shapes -> Shaped-Numbers 

ColouredLetters/Numbers

Aliens in the Family Written by Jamie Ward, and published 2008. “People with synesthesia experience the

ordinary world in extraordinary ways.” Most synesthetes don’t realise their condition, just as in the case of Debbie she did not discover she had synesthesia until her midtwenties. 

Sometimes synesthesia rules a persons life

without them ever realising it; they will often name their children to fit their synesthesia and choose their partners on this basis. “The fact that synesthesia runs in families doesn’t automatically make it genetic.” Although, there is scientific evidence of a genetic link to synesthesia. 

Even though synesthisa runs in families it

doesn’t mean all family members have the same form. In the case of the identical twins Mary and Jacqueline, they had similar types of synesthesia but saw different colours. E.g Mary sees “a” as green and Jacqueline

sees it as red. Yet again they didn’t realise they had synesthesia until they were in their early twenties.

Today’s Lecture The most common forms of synesthesia, and

the ones we will be looking at are: Grapheme -> colour synesthesia -> multiple-

sensory Chromaesthesia -> coloured hearing -> twosensory Coloured Gustation -> Taste as a colour -> two-sensory 

Grapheme This is where the individual experiences colour

when they hear words.

Chromaesthesia This is where an non visual stimuli evokes the

perception of a colour. Such as seeing colour as you hear music.

Coloured Gustation When some synesthetes eat the food evokes

the perception of colour.

This is one of the tests for synesthesia we

came across: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39TiACe4mw