Comments on: Hearing the voices of colours http://mindhacks.com/2011/04/12/hearing-the-voices-of-colours/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Psihobrlog preporučuje 14/04/2011 « PsihoBrlog http://mindhacks.com/2011/04/12/hearing-the-voices-of-colours/#comment-18697 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:26:20 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=17686#comment-18697 [...] psihoze, nazvan sinestezija indukovana [...]

]]> By: Matthew Barrett http://mindhacks.com/2011/04/12/hearing-the-voices-of-colours/#comment-18685 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:17:32 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=17686#comment-18685 I don’t think the problem is their liberality at all, but their lack of corroborative evidence. It’s _possible_ that this is synaesthesia, or it could be a delusion. They did not collect enough evidence to separate the two.

As an example of a verified synaesthesia that would be equally “liberal,” consider object-personality synaesthesia. In this form, a young woman perceived letters, numbers, and shapes as having rich personalities and relationships.

Over six months of careful study were required to confirm that this was legitimate synaesthesia and not a delusion.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.981

As for the word “losing meaning,” there are 61 types, and any definition ought to include them all or present a scientifically valid reason for an exclusion.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/000712610X528305/abstract;jsessionid=58BB19ECC3DFF1065D3650BB2A209B56.d03t04

]]> By: Danko Nikolic http://mindhacks.com/2011/04/12/hearing-the-voices-of-colours/#comment-18677 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:42:34 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=17686#comment-18677 I agree, the term synesthesia was used too liberally in this study. If we name every unusual association with the word synesthesia, the word will soon lose meaning. I am afraid that this is has already started to happen.

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