Seeing Sounds, Hearing Colors: The Neuroscience of Synaesthesia

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Featured Speaker: Berit Brogaard, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri – St. Louis; Principal Investigator, Brogaard Lab devoted to synesthesia and multisensory perception; American editor, international philosophy journal, Erkenntnis

Photo credit: University of Missouri – St. Louis

Painter and photographer David Hockney perceives music in terms of colour and shape, and Richard Feynman and Vladimir Nabokov linked letters and numbers to colours. All three are synaesthetes. Synaesthesia– a fusion of the senses, is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway in unusual ways– letters or numbers have colours, someone hears sounds in response to visual motion. Learn more about this fascinating condition and what it says about the idea that genius and special abilities are hidden aspects of us all.

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