Synaesthesia Flashcards
What convert physical signals to neural signals?
Receptors
How does the brain perceive the world?
From the senses and knowledge of the world
What is multi-sensory perception?
Info from different senses are brought together - quicker and easier
How do the senses affect each other? eg colour illusion
colour influences taste - vision influences sound eg lip reading - sound influences hardness
What’s the McGurk illusion?
What you see clashes with what you hear
What is synaesthesia and is it automatic or not?
Concrete perceptual experiences - not imagination - and it’s automatic and cannot be supressed
What is synaesthesia triggered by?
Internal thoughts or external environment stimuli
Triggered by letters/numbers etc
4 facts about developmental/genetic synaesthesia?
Can be genetic
Runs in families
Lifespan
Equal in men and women
How is it investigated? (High internal consistency)
Colour tests - asking people with/without about colours/letters - with way more accurate
Number-space synaesthesia?
See small numbers on left, large on right
