sensation and perception - sensory integration and synesthesia

Question 1

define sensory integration

Answer 1

• the brain’s ability to organize and interpret information from the senses
• ex: during the experience of eating food, it means the brain combines input from different senses—such as taste, smell, texture, and sight—to create a complete and rich perception of the eating experience.

Question 2

define synesthesia

Answer 2

• an extra sensory perception
  -a condition where perceptual or cognitive activities, like seeing colors or hearing sounds, trigger unusual sensory experiences, like associating colors with numbers, due to unique neural wiring, often linked to traits like perfect pitch.

Question 3

name the types of syntethesia

Answer 3

1. emotional syntethesia
2. word-taste synesthesia
3. grapheme-color synesthesia
4. tate-touch syntethesia
5. spatial sequence synthesia
6. hearing motion syntethesia

Question 4

define emotional syntethesia

Answer 4

Feeling a specific color when experiencing an emotion (e.g., sadness feels “blue”).

Question 5

define word-taste syntethesia

Question 6

define grapheme-colour syntethesia

Answer 6

Tasting specific flavors when hearing or reading certain words.

Question 7

define taste-touch syntethesia

Answer 7

Feeling textures on the skin when tasting different foods.

ex: touching oranges might make you taste citrus

Question 8

define spatial syntethesia

Answer 8

Visualizing numbers, days, or months as specific locations in space.

Question 9

define hearing motion syntethesia

Answer 9

earing sounds when seeing motion, like a swoosh sound when watching something move quickly.