Overview

Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending. Synaesthetes report seeing colours when hearing sounds or proper names, or they experience tastes when reading the names of subway stations. How do these rare cases relate to other more common examples where sensory experiences get mixed - cases like mirror-touch, personification, cross-modal mappings, and drug experiences? Are we all more or less synaesthetes, and does this mean that we are all subjects of crossmodal illusions? Could some apparently strange sensory cases give us an insight into how perception works? Recent research on the causes and prevalence of synaesthesia raises new questions regarding the links between these cases, and the unity of the condition. By bringing together contributions from leading cognitive neuroscientists and philosophers, this volume considers for the first time the broader theoretical lessons arising from such cases of sensory blending, with regard to the nature of perception and consciousness, the boundaries between perception, illusion and imagination, and the communicability and sharing of experiences.

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Author:   Ophelia Deroy (University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780199688289

ISBN 10:   0199688281
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   27 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Ophelia Deroy: Introduction Part 1. Defining and measuring synaesthesia 1: Lawrence E. Marks: Synaesthesia, then and now 2: Casey O'Callaghan: Synesthesia vs. crossmodal illusions 3: Jonathan Cohen: Synesthetic perception as continuous with ordinary perception, or: We're all synesthetes now 4: Yasmina Jraissati: Reporting color experience in grapheme-color synesthesia: on the relation between color appearance, categories, and terms Part 2. Challenges raised by synaesthesia 5: Myrto Myrtopoulos & Tony Ro: Synesthesia and consciousness: exploring the connections 6: Berit Brogaard: Synesthetic binding and the reactivation model of memory 7: André J. Abath: Merleau-Ponty and the problem of synaesthesia 8: Mohan Mathen: When is Synaesthesia Perception? 9: Michael Sollberger: Can synaesthesia present the world as it really is? Part 3. Boundaries of synaesthesia: Unconscious, acquired and social varieties of sensory unions 10: Ophelia Deroy & Charles Spence: Questioning the continuity claim: what difference does consciousness make? 11: Devin Blair Terhune, David P. Luke, & Roi Cohen Kadosh: The induction of synaesthesia in non-synaesthetes 12: Malika Auvray and Mirko Farina: Patrolling the boundaries of synaesthesia: a critical appraisal of transient and artificially-induced forms of synaesthetic experiences 13: Frédérique de Vignemont: Mirror touch synaesthesia: intersubjective or intermodal fusion? 14: Noam Sagiv, Monika Sobczak-Edmans, & Adrian L. Williams: Personification, synaesthesia and social cognition

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Ophelia Deroy is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Senses and the co-director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London. She specialises in philosophy of mind and cognitive neurosciences, and has widely published on issues related to multisensory perception, sensory deficits, and synaesthesia, both in philosophical and scientific journals. She is an active promoter and a leading advocate of stronger connections between philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind. Her work is frequently broadcast in national and international newspapers, and she is regularly consulted by institutions and the media regarding the relevance of philosophy for scientific debates.

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