Bright colors falsely seen : synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge

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Label

Bright colors falsely seen : synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge

Title remainder

synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge

Statement of responsibility

Kevin T. Dann

Creator

• Dann, Kevin T., 1956-

Subject

• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Esthetische ervaring
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology
• Psychology
• Consciousness
• Synesthesia
• Synesthesia
• Synesthesie
• Synästhesie
• Transcendentie
• Social Sciences

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient - a synaesthete - experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for more than a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses. This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann discusses divergent views of synaesthesia and eideticism of the past hundred years and explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

152.1

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

BF495

LC item number

.D36 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography