http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5624 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:23:28 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5624 Yep, definitely not a new idea. As the Holcombe et al. article shows, it was the default position a century ago.
Daphne & Charles Maurer also put forward the position in their 1988 book “The World of the Newborn”. Daphne in particular has published intermittently on it since.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5623 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:08:02 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5623 I think its so interesting that the life and perceptions of early infancy are such an impenetrable mystery to us despite the fact that we all experienced them firsthand at some point.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5622 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:59:49 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5622 This is hardly ‘new’ – I remember learning this in my cognitive psych class back in 1987.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5621 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:55:54 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/synaesthesia-in-frankenstein/#comment-5621 I’ve never heard of that approach before, absolutely fascinating. If this is true I wonder if it has anything to do with why childhood memories are so fuzzy.
Also, great blog overall, a friend of mine just showed it to me.

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