Sensory Blending : On Synaesthesia and related phenomena /
Synaesthesia is a strange sensory blending: synaesthetes report experiences of colours or tastes associated with particular sounds or words. This volume presents new essays by scientists and philosophers exploring what such cases can tell us about the nature of perception and its boundaries with ill...
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OUP Oxford,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Sensory Blending: On Synaesthesia and Related Phenomena; Copyright ; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; I.1 Beyond minority reports; I.2 Revising our definitions of perception; I.3 Accepting arbitrariness and missing control; I.4 Redrawing the distinction between the senses; I.5 Overview; Acknowledgements; References; PART I: Defining and Measuring Synaesthesia; 1: Synesthesia, Then and Now; 1.1 Synesthesia and the 'unity of the senses'; 1.2 Synesthetic perception; 1.3 Synesthetic tendencies in perception.
- 1.4 Synesthesia versus synesthetic tendencies1.5 Synesthetic tendencies in children; 1.6 Synesthetic tendencies in language and metaphor; 1.7 The puzzle of synesthesia; 1.8 Varieties of synesthesia; 1.9 Perceptual-perceptual synesthesia; 1.10 Cognitive-perceptual and perceptual-cognitive synesthesia; 1.11 Perceptual-affective and cognitive-affective synesthesia; 1.12 Boundaries of synesthesia; 1.13 Monism, dualism, pluralism; 1.14 Dualism's common denominators; 1.15 Pluralism's prototypes; References; 2: Synesthesia vs. Crossmodal Illusions; 2.1 Two opposing perspectives on synesthesia.
- 2.2 Cross-sensory synesthesia2.3 Crossmodal illusions; 2.4 Synesthesia vs. crossmodal illusions; 2.5 Synesthesia and synesthesis; References; 3: Synesthetic Perception as Continuous with Ordinary Perception, or: We're All Synesthetes Now; 3.1 Informational integration, synesthetic and otherwise; 3.1.1 Synesthesia; 3.1.2 Normal perception; 3.1.2.1 INTEGRATION IN NORMAL PERCEPTION; 3.1.2.2 MORALS; 3.1.3 Continuity and discontinuity; 3.2 Synesthetic and non-synesthetic associations: compare and contrast; 3.2.1 Similarities; 3.2.1.1 GRAPHEME-COLOR INTRAMODAL MAPPING.
- 3.2.1.2 SOUND-COLOR INTERMODAL MAPPING3.2.2 Differences; 3.2.2.1 UNIDIRECTIONALITY AND TRANSITIVITY; 3.2.2.2 RELATIVITY/CONTEXT-SENSITIVITY; 3.2.2.3 MALLEABILITY; 3.2.2.4 INFRAVERBAL EXPRESSION; 3.2.3 Methodological interlude; 3.3 Synesthetic enhancement of crossmodal integration; 3.4 Conclusion; References; 4: Reporting Color Experience in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: On the Relation Between Color Appearance, Categories, and Terms; 4.1 Factors underpinning the color-grapheme association: the discussion; 4.2 The Berlin and Kay typology: implications and limitations.
- 4.2.1 The introduction of Berlin and Kay's typology4.2.2 Regarding basic color terms; 4.2.3 Regarding the evolutionary sequence; 4.2.4 Perceptually determined color categories vs/linguistically mediated synesthetic associations; 4.3 Contributions to the discussion; 4.3.1 The tensions in Simner and Ward's response to Beeli et al.; 4.3.2 Saturation or color term frequency? How the basic color terms theory may offer an alternative account for the data; 4.3.3 Beyond synesthesia: the possible implications for color categorization; References; PART II: Challenges Raised by Synaesthesia.