The hidden sense : synesthesia in art and science / Cretien van Campen.

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Campen, Crétien van [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Series: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, (c)2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraitsContent type:

text

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computer
computer

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online resource
online resource

ISBN:

9781461957218
9780262285407
9780262265003
9781282100541

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BF495 .H533 2008

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Contents:

I. Perception -- 2. Music video clip without TV -- 3. Children draw music -- 4. Visual music -- II. Thought -- 5. Calculating in colors -- 6. Poetic synesthesia -- 7. Exploring drug-induced synesthesia -- III. Insight -- 8. A colored brain? -- 9. Dark double bass and purple piano -- 10. The hidden sense.

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Review: "In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research." "Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes - from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Seriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire." "What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense - a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Introduction -- I. Perception -- 2. Music video clip without TV -- 3. Children draw music -- 4. Visual music -- II. Thought -- 5. Calculating in colors -- 6. Poetic synesthesia -- 7. Exploring drug-induced synesthesia -- III. Insight -- 8. A colored brain? -- 9. Dark double bass and purple piano -- 10. The hidden sense.

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"In The Hidden Sense, Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature, and recent neurological research." "Van Campen reports that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual synesthetes - from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of synesthesia in the work of Seriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Poe, and Baudelaire." "What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense - a way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity."--Jacket

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