Synesthesia

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Synesthesia

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Synesthesia

Synesthesia refers to a neurological Phenomenon where by stimulation of a cognitive pathway or one sensory result to inventory experiences automatically in a second cognitive or sensory pathway . Synesthetes are the kind of people who experience such kind of problems . The neural basis synesthesia theory began after the observation of some dedicated parts of the brain being specializing to particular functions . This led some researchers to suggest that increase in brain cross-talk between several zones

made for different functions would result to different types of synesthesia (Rader , Tellegen , 1987 ,

.983 . For instance , the extra experience of viewing colors when observing graphemes might result because of cross-activation ' of V4 which might subsequently arise because of the normal developmental process of pruning failure . The reason for this is that regions that are engaged in identifying letters and numbers are next to an area engaged with color processing ,V4

In color -graphemic synesthesia , which is one type of synesthesia numbers as well as letters are seen as inherently colored while in Ordinal linguistic personification , numbers , days , weeks and months evoke personalities while in the same numbers , days , weeks and months would be perceived as elicit exact positions in space in number form synesthesia or spatial- sequence Visual motion and sound shnesthesia are newly identified types that include hearing sounds in regard to flicker and visual motion . There are more than sixty types of synesthesia that have been reported by different people but...