Not all synesthetes are alike: spatial vs. visual dimensions of sequence-space synesthesia

Frontiers in Psychology

Clare N. Jonas¹ 

关键词: synesthesia;    spatial imagery;    visual imagery;    mental imagery;    prevalence;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01171

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Sequence-space synesthesia (SSS) is a common condition in which ordinal sequences such as months, numbers or the letters of the alphabet are perceived to occupy spatial locations in the mind's eye or peripersonal or extrapersonal space (e.g., Price and Mentzoni, 2008; Jonas and Jarick, 2013). For example, thinking about a month may elicit the visuospatial impression of a circular arrangement of the months, or hearing a numeral may elicit a specifically shaped number line. These “spatial forms” are typically thought to be consistent over time within an individual (e.g., Smilek et al., 2007), though they can actually evolve (Price and Pearson, 2013; Gould et al., 2014; Price, 2014; see also Simner, 2012; Meier et al., 2014). They are also idiosyncratic, with synesthetes reporting many different shapes of varying complexity (Galton, 1880; Phillips, 1897) that are experienced outside the body (i.e., projected) or in the mind's eye (i.e., associated; Dixon et al., 2004; Smilek et al., 2007; Ward et al., 2007).

【 授权许可】

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