Bright colors falsely seen

synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge

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Bright colors falsely seen

synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge

"In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient - a synaesthete - experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for more than a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses.

This fascinating book provides the first historical treatment of synaesthesia and a closely related mode of perception called eideticism. Kevin Dann discusses divergent views of synaesthesia and eideticism of the past hundred years and explores the controversies over the significance of these unusual modes of perception."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
225

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-216) and index.

Published in
New Haven

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
152.1
Library of Congress
BF495 .D36 1998, BF495.D36 1998, BF495 .D36 1998eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 225 p. ;
Number of pages
225

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL356164M
Internet Archive
brightcolorsfals00dann
ISBN 10
0300066198
LCCN
98015990
OCLC/WorldCat
49851596, 38595492
Library Thing
1413216
Goodreads
1162812

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