Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge

by Kevin T. Dann

Book Overview

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 over a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300206399
• ISBN13: 9780300206395
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"