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Where : Filmhouse café bar, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
When : 8:30pm
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Contact:

Julia Perez

Previous Events

Upcoming Events

Date:

Monday 9th June

Title:

Synaesthesia: tasty coloured touchy-smelling sounds

Speaker:

Julia Simner, University of Edinburgh

For people with synaesthesia, everyday activities such as reading, listening to music, etc. give rise to extra-ordinary experiences of colour, tastes and more. For example, smelling food may trigger the experience of touch against the hand or reading words give rise to the perceptual experience of taste in the mouth. Other common variants include 'grapheme-colour synaesthesia' in which letters and numbers trigger sensations of colour, or 'visuo-spatial synaesthesia' in which time sequences (e.g., months, days) are seen in specific shapes or patterns in space.

Synaesthesia has a known family transmission pattern, and has been traced to increased structural connectivity in the brains of synaesthetes. In this talk Julia will describe her work examining the cognitive and developmental basis of synaesthesia, and what the phenomenon might tell us about the functioning of perception, memory and language more generally.

 

 

 

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