tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:280185dsgooddsgooddsgood2012-01-25T00:58:33Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:280185:47615dsgood @ 2012-01-24T18:59:002012-01-25T00:58:33Z2012-01-25T00:58:33Zpublic0"Synesthesia is the general name for a related set (a 'complex') of various cognitive states. Synesthesia may be divided into two general, somewhat overlapping types. The first, which I sometimes call "synesthesia proper', is as described above, in which stimuli to a sensory input will also trigger sensations in one or more other sensory modes. The second form of synesthesia, called "cognitive" or "category synesthesia", involves synesthetic additions to culture-bound cognitive categorizational systems. In simpler words, with this kind of synesthesia, certain sets of things which our individual cultures teach us to put together and categorize in some specific way – like letters, numbers, or people's names – also get some kind of sensory addition, such as a smell, color or flavor. The most common forms of cognitive synesthesia involve such things as colored written letter characters (graphemes), numbers, time units, and musical notes or keys. For example, the synesthete might see, about a foot or two before her, different colors for different spoken vowel and consonant sounds, or perceive numbers and letters, whether conceptualized or before her in print, as colored....<br /><br />"Synesthesia is additive; that is, it adds to the initial (primary) sensory perception, rather than replacing one perceptual mode for another...." Sean A. Day<br /><a href="http://www.daysyn.com/Definition.html">http://www.daysyn.com/Definition.html</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dsgood&ditemid=47615" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments