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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Synesthesia. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)608097823 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynn C Robertson; Noam Sagiv |
| ISBN: | 019516623X 9780195166231 |
| OCLC Number: | 53020292 |
| Description: | xii, 266 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Synesthesia in perspective / Noam Sagiv -- Some demographic and socio-cultural aspects of synesthesia / Sean Day -- Varieties of synesthetic experience / Christopher W. Tyler -- On the perceptual reality of synesthetic color / Randolph Blake ... [et al.] -- Binding of graphemes and synesthetic colors in color-graphemic synesthesia / Daniel Smilek, Mike J. Dixon, and Philip M. Merikle -- Synesthesia and the binding problem / Noam Sagiv and Lynn C. Robertson -- Can attention modulate color-graphemic synesthesia? / Anina N. Rich and Jason B. Mattingley -- Synesthesia : a window on the hard problem of consciousness / Jeffrey Gray -- The emergence of the human mind : some clues from synesthesia / V.S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard -- Neonatal synesthesia : a reevaluation / Daphne Maurer and Catherine J. Mondloch -- Developmental constraints on theories of synesthesia / Lawrence E. Marks and Eric C. Odgaard -- Synesthesia : implications for attention, binding, and consciousness-a commentary / Anne Treisman. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lynn C. Robertson and Noam Sagiv. |
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Abstract:
Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated by these two communities are intriguing. This volume aims to provide answers to these questions.
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Overall, this work provides a broad cross-section of interest for synaesthesia researchers, and does so in a readable and comprehensive way. The division into subsections makes the relationship between each paper more explicit, and the detailed index is particularly useful. I recommend this book to researchers and students, in philosophy, psychology, or neuroscience, and it is a must-read for those wishing to get acquainted with this unusual and fascinating phenomenon. Perception, Vol 34 Read more...
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