Description

• Title:
  Synesthesia: a return to the body
• Creator:
  Melero, Helena
• Description:
  Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon whose nature and etiology remain unknown. In this paper, I apply the neurophenomenological perspective to reflect on the very nature of inducers and concurrents, including their perceptual and conceptual dimensions and their stability over time. Additionally, I analyze the role of attention and its influence over synesthesia, which contributes to the difficulties that we, synesthetes, find when sharing our personal experiences with non-synesthetes. Finally, I expose some examples of the current neuroscientific data and propose some insights into the embodied character of synesthesia, stressing the key role of its emotional component. I conclude describing the clinical applications of the findings in the field of synesthesia and their implications for the understanding of cognition in general.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2014.05.20
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Vol. 10 (2013): Synesthesia; 135-148;
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Tom 10 (2013): Synesthesia; 135-148;
  2392-1196;
  0867-4159
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths-2013-0007/3525
• Subject:
  synesthesia;
  neurophenomenology;
  emotion;
  consciousness;
  cognition
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths-2013-0007
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text