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Synesthesia
an experience of the third kind?
pp. 395-407
Abstract
What is it like to have a synesthetic experience? Most synesthetes have stressed "having trouble putting into words some of the things (they) experience" as if they had to explain "red to a blind person or middle-C to a deaf person". The current definition of synesthesia as a condition in which 'stimulation in one sensory or cognitive stream leads to associated experiences in a second, unstimulated stream" leaves the question open: What do these "associated experiences' consist in?
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Published in:
Brown Richard S. (2014) Consciousness inside and out: phenomenology, neuroscience, and the nature of experience. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 395-407
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_27
Full citation:
Deroy Ophelia (2014) „Synesthesia: an experience of the third kind?“, In: R. S. Brown (ed.), Consciousness inside and out, Dordrecht, Springer, 395–407.