Mental Imagery Part 2 Flashcards
What is synesthesia?
When a stimulus appropriate to one sense triggers an experience appropriate to another sense
What are people with synesthesia called?
Synesthetes
What is an inducer and concurrent?
Inducer: cue eliciting the synesthetic experience
Concurrent: synesthetic response itself
What is the most common type of synesthesia and what is it?
Chromesthesia
- Colored hearing
How many people have this and which gender is more prone?
1 in 200
Women
Explain C’s extraordinary memory.
- asked to remember 4 lists of 9 digits and could recall all of them
- each digit induces a color
When has C’s performance plummeted?
In incongruent display
Does synesthesia help memory?
Yes
Describe a newborn’s senses.
- Not well-differentiated
- Intermingled in a synesthestic confusion
- Idea that our 5 senses evolved out of one sense that united them all together
What does pruning tell us about synesthesia?
Synesthetes probably don’t go through sufficient pruning and connections between sensory areas would remain
- Gene responsible for pruning found to be defective in synesthesia
Responses can also be elicited by what besides percepts? Give an example.
- By concepts
- Induced by being shown 5+2, inducing yellow (7) but 7 was not shown
What also plays a role in synesthesia? Describe JIW
Linguistic and conceptual processes - JIW's sounds elicited tastes chicago - avocado barbara - rhubarb virginia - vinegar
What are strong synesthesia’s characterized by? Give an example
Inducer in one modality evokes concurrent in other modality
- Experiencing a color (orange) in response to pain (leg injury for instance)
True or false: synesthesia can enhance memory.
True
True or false: incongruet displays (between concurrents and inducers) facilitate memory performance in synesthetics.
False
