The person in the story has a condition called synaesthesia. This is where there is a mixing of senses causing the person to experience such things as colored hearing, gustatory sights, and auditory smells.
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www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/synesthesia...
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Synesthesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia , plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae )—from the Ancient Greek (syn), "together," and (aisthēsis), "sensation"—is a neurologically based...
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UK Synaesthesia Association founder, Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, University of Cambridge. ... Synaesthesia researchers ... Synaesthesia Research Edward M. Hubbard, Department of Psychology University of California, San Diego.
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Factual information, individual anecdotes, and interactive activities which simulate synesthesia. ... syn-es-the-sia n. Physiol. Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point ... Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense.
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web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html
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THE NEXT UK SYNAESTHESIA ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, FALMER, BRIGHTON ON 27 & 28 MARCH, 2010. CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER DETAILS! ... Synaesthesia is a truly fascinating condition. In its simplest form it is best described as a “union of the senses” whereby two or more of the five...
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www.uksynaesthesia.com/
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An article by CNN about synesthesia. ... Ever taste a shape, or smell a color? ... Neurologist explores strange world of synesthesia...
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Richard E. Cytowic's keystone article in Psyche. A review of current knowledge on synesthesia. ... That is, the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes a perception in one or more different senses. Its phenomenology clearly ... An unexpected demographic and cognitive constellation co-occurs with synesthesia:
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Synaesthesia program that approximates graphically how sound is perceived. The display allows you to make out different instruments as blobs of color of different shapes, sizes and positions, all in real time. It's kinda hypnotic actually, and is a safe alternative to the use of hallucinogens.
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yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/synaesthesia.html
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Sean A. Day's mailing list, for synaesthetes and other interested, has its home here. ... from the 2nd Annual Conference on Synaesthesia in Hanover, Germany...
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