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Author(s): Cretien van Campen
ISBN(s): 9780262220811, 0262514079
Edition: 1
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0262514079
ISBN 13: 9780262220811
Author: Cretien Van Campen

The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes’ experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature. What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination, the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of synesthetes’ brains that show “crosstalk” between areas of the brain that do not normally communicate. In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research. Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes—from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire. What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense—a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.

The Hidden Sense Synesthesia in Art and Science Leonardo Books 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

Section I

2 Music Video Clip without TV
Looking Around in Sound Images
Two-Way Traffic
Synesthesia, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Romantic Landscapes
Synesthetic Composers
Olivier Messiaen
György Ligeti
Michael Torke
Bach in Colored Bars
Vivaldi’s Coils

3 Children Draw Music
Baby’s Sensory Soup
The Senses Seindentte
Children Discover Synesthesia
Painting on Music
Developing Synesthesia

4 Visual Music
Color Organs
Scriabin’s Vision
Musical Paintings
The Digital Salon

Section II

5 Calculating in Colors
Red Plus Red Is Black
Arabesques and Pattern Recognition
Numbers in Space
Visual Thinking
Extraordinary Thinkers

6 Poetic Synesthesia
Synesthesia in a Character
Arms on My Brains
How Many Senses?
Synesthetic Indians
Channeling Sensory Impressions

7 Exploring Drug-Induced Synesthesia
Opium Eaters
Murmuring Twilight
The Hashish Club
Pharmacological Studies
Is Synesthesia a Hallucination?

Section III

8 A Colored Brain?
Normal or Abnormal?
Who Is a Synesthete?
How Many Synesthetes?
A Slippery Subject

9 Dark Double Bass and Purple Piano
Color, a Multifaceted Experience
Colors in Odors, Flavors, and Music
Varieties in Form and Dynamics
Matching Sensory Qualities
Common and Particular Synesthesia

10 The Hidden Sense
A Particular Common Sense
A New View
Enjoying, Knowing, and Creating
Awareness of Synesthesia
What Is Learned in the Cradle Lasts Till the Tomb
My Synesthesia

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