Synaesthesia and individual differences / Aleksandra Maria Rogowska, Opole University of Technology, Poland.
"Synaesthesia is a fascinating cognitive phenomenon where one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. For example, synaesthetes might perceive colours when listening to music, or tastes in the mouth when reading words. This book provides an insight into the idiosyncratic nature of...
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| Language: | English |
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2015.
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| Summary: | "Synaesthesia is a fascinating cognitive phenomenon where one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. For example, synaesthetes might perceive colours when listening to music, or tastes in the mouth when reading words. This book provides an insight into the idiosyncratic nature of synaesthesia by exploring its relationships with other dimensions of individual differences. Many characteristics of linguistic-colour synaesthetes are covered including personality, temperament, intelligence, creativity, emotionality, attention, memory, imagination, colour perception, body lateralization and gender. Aleksandra Rogowska proposes that linguistic-colour synaesthesia can be considered as an abstract form of a continuous variable in the broader context of cross- and intra-modal associations. There has been a resurgence of interest in synaesthesia and this book will appeal to students and scientists of psychology, cognitive science and social science, and to those who are fascinated by unusual states of mind"-- "This book provides an insight into the idiosyncratic nature of synaesthesia by exploring its relationships with other dimensions of individual differences"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781316156230 1316156230 9781316320587 1316320588 9781316333969 1316333965 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |