Validating a standardised test battery for synesthesia: Does the Synesthesia Battery reliably detect synesthesia?

Validating a standardised test battery for synesthesia: Does the Synesthesia Battery reliably detect synesthesia?

Synesthesia is a neurological condition that gives rise to unusual secondary sensations (e.g., reading letters might trigger the experience of colour). Testing the consistency of these sensations over long time intervals is the behavioural gold standard assessment for detecting synesthesia (e.g., Simner, Mulvenna et al., 2006). In 2007 however, Eagleman and colleagues presented an online 'Synes...

A standardized test battery for the study of synesthesia.

Synesthesia is an unusual condition in which stimulation of one modality evokes sensation or experience in another modality. Although discussed in the literature well over a century ago, synesthesia slipped out of the scientific spotlight for decades because of the difficulty in verifying and quantifying private perceptual experiences. In recent years, the study of synesthesia has enjoyed a ren...

Color Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation in one sensory or cognitive stream involuntarily, or automatically, leads to associated internal or external (illusory or hallucinatory) experiences in a second unstimulated sensory or cognitive system [1–9]. Although most cases of synesthesia are developmental and run in families, acquired cases have also been reported following traumatic brain i...

PSYCHE: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ ALTER: DOES SYNESTHESIA UNDERMINE REPRESENTATIONALISM? 1 Does Synesthesia Undermine Representationalism?

On Gregg Rosenberg’s (2004) view, synesthesia illustrates how phenomenal properties can vary independently of representational properties. I explain how the representationalist can answer his arguments. The belief that synesthesia poses a serious problem for representationalism derives, I argue, from misconceptions about representationalism. Rosenberg’s discussion of synesthesia and representat...

A Review of Synesthesia