Synaesthesia

:Note: Synaesthesia was the name of a series of events that took place in Rochester, NY in 2003 (see Synaesthesia, events). There is also an industrial music band called Synæsthesia.

External links

• The Color of SoundCool Flash experiment where you can assign colors to sounds and see how other people voted.
• Synaesthesia and MigraineSynaesthesia may occur as a visual migraine aura.
• People who feel color gets scientific acceptance
• Synesthesia research project in Waterloo, Ontario (volunteer synaesthetes needed)
• http://www.colortronic.tk Colortronic is an electronic music project from Brazil which blends color and music.
• http://synaesthesia.fws1.com A highly synaesthetic person's experience including letters having colour and texture, and digits having colour and personality.
• http://www.geocities.com/dachshundweaver/syn.html A girl's Geocities page about her gustatory, or word-tasting, synesthesia.
• http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~cretien/pub/syneng.htm Crétien van Campen, 'Artistic and psychological experiments with synesthesia' gives the historical background.
• http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html Richard Cytowic, 'Synesthesia: phenomenology and neuropsychology' emphasizes the involuntary nature of the cross-modal perceptions and 'distinguishes it from metaphor, literary tropes, sound symbolism, and deliberate artistic contrivances that sometimes employ the term "synaesthesia" to describe their multisensory joinings.'
• http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v3/psyche-3-06-vancampen.html Crétien van Campen, 'Synesthesia and artistic experimentation' comments on Cytowic, adducing the examples of Scriabin's and Kandinsky's experiments as relevant for the study of synesthesia.
• http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/index.htm Synaesthesia and the Arts - Dr. Hugo Heyrman 'Museums of the Mind'. Research and theory on the future of the senses. Homepage of the Belgian Synesthesia Association.
• Synaesthesia and Education: a research project at the University of Cambridge investigating the effects of grapheme-colour synaesthesia on numerical processing in children.
• Scientific American article Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes (PDF version) by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard, May 2003.
• A Brief History of Synaesthesia and Music
• A Mango-Shaped Space, a novel about a 13-year-old with synesthesia by Wendy Mass
• Synaesthesia - union of the senses (from Kuro5hin)
• Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens by Patricia Lynne Duffy
• American Synesthesia Association
• CNN article on tasting musical tones
• Why some see colours in numbers at BBC News, 24 March, 2005
• Artificial synesthesia (for the blind)