{"product_id":"the-hidden-sense-synesthesia-in-art-and-science-leonardo","title":"The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science (Leonardo)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes experiences  the latest scientific research  and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art  music  and literature. What is does it mean to hear music in colors  to taste voices  to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia  when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as imagination or delusion  metaphor or drug-induced hallucination  the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of synesthetes brains that show \"crosstalk\" between areas of the brain that do not normally communicate. 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 synesthetesfrom 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 Scriabin  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 sensea way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966456950837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262514079","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262514071.jpg?v=1770562889","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hidden-sense-synesthesia-in-art-and-science-leonardo","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}