The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This inherited condition gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses', and so for those who experience it, everyday activities like reading or listening to music trigger extraordinary impressions of colours, tastes, smells, shapes and other sensations. Synesthesia research also informs us about normal sensation because all people experience cross-sensory mappings to an implicit degree. Synesthesia has a considerably broad appeal, and in recent decades the field has experienced a resurgence of interest. These advances have painted a detailed story about the development, genetics, psychology, history, aesthetics and neuroscience of synesthesia, and provide a contemporary source of study for a new generation of scholars.

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia brings together this broad body of knowledge into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook. It includes a large number of concisely written chapters, under broader headings, which tackle questions about the origins of synesthesia, its neurological basis, its links with language and numbers, attention and perception, and with 'normal' sensory and linguistic processing. It asks questions about synesthesia's role in language evolution, and presents both contemporary and historical overviews of the field. It shows synaesthesia's costs and benefits (e.g., in creativity, memory, imagery) and describes how synaesthesia can provide inspiration for artists and designers. The book ends with a series of perspectives on synesthesia, including a first-hand account, and philosophical viewpoints which show how synaesthesia poses unique questions about sensation, consciousness and the nature of reality.
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The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia
Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This inherited condition gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses', and so for those who experience it, everyday activities like reading or listening to music trigger extraordinary impressions of colours, tastes, smells, shapes and other sensations. Synesthesia research also informs us about normal sensation because all people experience cross-sensory mappings to an implicit degree. Synesthesia has a considerably broad appeal, and in recent decades the field has experienced a resurgence of interest. These advances have painted a detailed story about the development, genetics, psychology, history, aesthetics and neuroscience of synesthesia, and provide a contemporary source of study for a new generation of scholars.

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia brings together this broad body of knowledge into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook. It includes a large number of concisely written chapters, under broader headings, which tackle questions about the origins of synesthesia, its neurological basis, its links with language and numbers, attention and perception, and with 'normal' sensory and linguistic processing. It asks questions about synesthesia's role in language evolution, and presents both contemporary and historical overviews of the field. It shows synaesthesia's costs and benefits (e.g., in creativity, memory, imagery) and describes how synaesthesia can provide inspiration for artists and designers. The book ends with a series of perspectives on synesthesia, including a first-hand account, and philosophical viewpoints which show how synaesthesia poses unique questions about sensation, consciousness and the nature of reality.
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The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia

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Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon which has captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike. This inherited condition gives rise to a kind of 'merging of the senses', and so for those who experience it, everyday activities like reading or listening to music trigger extraordinary impressions of colours, tastes, smells, shapes and other sensations. Synesthesia research also informs us about normal sensation because all people experience cross-sensory mappings to an implicit degree. Synesthesia has a considerably broad appeal, and in recent decades the field has experienced a resurgence of interest. These advances have painted a detailed story about the development, genetics, psychology, history, aesthetics and neuroscience of synesthesia, and provide a contemporary source of study for a new generation of scholars.

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia brings together this broad body of knowledge into one definitive state-of-the-art handbook. It includes a large number of concisely written chapters, under broader headings, which tackle questions about the origins of synesthesia, its neurological basis, its links with language and numbers, attention and perception, and with 'normal' sensory and linguistic processing. It asks questions about synesthesia's role in language evolution, and presents both contemporary and historical overviews of the field. It shows synaesthesia's costs and benefits (e.g., in creativity, memory, imagery) and describes how synaesthesia can provide inspiration for artists and designers. The book ends with a series of perspectives on synesthesia, including a first-hand account, and philosophical viewpoints which show how synaesthesia poses unique questions about sensation, consciousness and the nature of reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198836278
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/23/2018
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 1104
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 6.60(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Julia Simner is an experimental neuropsychologist and leading expert in the field of synaesthesia research. She has a background in psychology, languages and linguistics from the Universities of Oxford, Toronto and Sussex, and she currently runs the Synaesthesia and Sensory Integration lab at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work focusses on the sensory, cognitive, linguistic, developmental, and historical bases of synaesthesia, and has been published in high impact science journals such as Nature, Trends in Cognitive Science, and Brain. She is keenly interested in facilitating the public's understanding of science and her work has been reported in over 100 media articles world-wide, including the NY Times, BBC, CBC, Telegraph, Times, New Scientist, Scientific American etc. In 2010 she was recognised as an outstanding European scientist by the European Commission's Atomium Culture Initiative and her science writing has been published in some of Europe's leading national newspapers.

Dr. Edward M. Hubbard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he directs the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory. He received degrees from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and completed his post-doctoral training at INSERM's Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit and Vanderbilt University. He has investigated the perceptual and neural bases of grapheme-color synesthesia and synesthetic number forms for nearly twenty years, and his behavioural and neuroimaging work was critical in convincing the scientific community that synaesthesia was a valid, tractable topic for investigation. More recently, he has begun to investigate the neural basis of numerical and mathematical processing in non-synesthetes, and the development of these abilities in children, to better understand the neural mechanisms that lead to the development of synesthesia in children.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Origins of Synesthesia1. The prevalence of synesthesia: The consistency revolution, Donielle Johnson, Carrie Allison, and Simon Baron-Cohen2. The genetics and inheritance of synaesthesia, Julian E. Asher and Duncan A. Carmichael3. Synesthesia in infants and very young children, Daphne Maurer, Laura C. Gibson, and Ferrinne Spector4. Synesthesia in school-aged children, Julia Simner and Edward M. Hubbard5. Synesthesia, alphabet books, and fridge magnets, Peter HancockPart 2: Synesthesia, Language, and Numbers6. Numbers, synesthesia, and directionality, Roi Cohen Kadosh and Avishai Henik7. Synesthesia, sequences, and space, Clare Jonas and Michelle Jarick8. The 'rules' of synesthesia, Julia Simner9. Colored alphabets in bilingual synesthetes, Aleksandra Mroczko-Wasowicz and Danko Nikolic10. Synesthesia, meaning, and multilingual speakers, Fiona N. Newell11. Synesthesia in non-alphabetic languages, Wan-Yu Hung12. Synesthetic personification: The social world of graphemes, Monika Sobczak-Edmans and Noam SagivPart 3: Attention and Perception13. Individual differences in synesthesia, Tessa M. van Leeuwen14. The role of attention in synesthesia, Anina N. Rich and Jason B. Mattingley15. Revisiting the perceptual reality of synesthetic color, Chai-Youn Kim and Randolph Blake16. Synesthesia and binding, Bryan D. Alvarez and Lynn C. Robertson17. Synesthesia, eye-movements, and pupillometry, Tanja C. W. Nijboer and Bruno Laeng18. Synesthesia, incongruence, and emotionality, Alicia Callejas and Juan Lupi an ezPart 4: Contemporary and Historical Approaches19. Synesthesia in the nineteenth century: Scientific origins, Jorg Jewanski20. Synesthesia in the twentieth century: Synesthesia's renaissance, Richard E. Cytowic21. Synesthesia in the twenty-first century: Synesthesia's ascent, Christopher T. Lovelace22. Synesthesia in space versus the 'mind's eye': How to ask the right questions, Christine Mohr23. Synesthesia: A psychosocial approach, Markus Zedler and Marie RehmePart 5: Neurological Basis of Synesthesia24. Synesthesia and functional imaging, Edward M. Hubbard25. Synesthesia, hyperconnectivity, and diffusion tensor imaging, Romke Rouw26. Can gray matter studies inform theories of (grapheme-color) synesthesia?, Peter H. Weiss27. Synesthesia and cortical connectivity: A neurodevelopmental perspective, Kevin J. Mitchell28. The timing of neurophysiological events in synaesthesia, Lutz Jancke29. The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in the investigation of synesthesia, Neil G. Muggleton and Elias Tsakanikos30. Synesthesia, mirror neurons, and mirror-touch, Michael J. BanissyPart 6: Costs and Benefits: Creativity, Memory, and Imagery31. Synesthesia and creativity, Catherine M. Mulvenna32. Synesthesia in the visual arts, Cretien van Campen33. Synesthesia in literature, Patricia Lynne Duffy34. Synesthesia and the artistic process, Carol Steen and Greta Berman35. Synesthesia and memory, Beat Meier and Nicolas Rothen36. Synesthesia and savantism, Mary Jane Spiller and Ashok S. Jansari37. Synesthesia, imagery, and performance, Mark C. PricePart 7: Cross-Modality in the General Population38. Weak synesthesia in perception and language, Lawrence E. Marks39. Audiovisual cross-modal correspondences in the general population, Cesare Parise and Charles Spence40. Cross-modality in speech processing, Argiro Vatakis41. Magnitudes, metaphors, and modalities: A theory of magnitude revisited, Vincent E. Walsh42. Sensory substitution devices: Creating 'artificial synesthesias', Laurent Renier and Anne G. De Volder43. Synesthesia, cross-modality, and language evolution, Christine Cuskley and Simon KirbyPart 8: Perspectives on Synesthesia44. Synesthesia: A first-person perspective, Sean A. Day45. Synesthesia and consciousness, Noam Sagiv and Chris D. Frith46. What exactly is a sense?, Brian L. Keeley47. What synesthesia isn't, Mary-Ellen Lynall and Colin Blakemore48. From molecules to metaphor: Outlooks on synesthesia research, V. S. Ramachandran and David Brang49. Synesthesia: Where have we been? Where are we going?, Jamie Ward
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