[20-Feb-2022 02:14:48 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/cf7.php:8 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/cf7.php on line 8 [21-Feb-2022 01:47:50 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/woocommerce.php:19 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vendors/woocommerce.php on line 19 [20-Feb-2022 05:33:37 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vc-pages/settings-tabs.php:27 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/australi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/autoload/vc-pages/settings-tabs.php on line 27 Comments on: Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/ Independent Initiative for Advancement of Science and Research in Australia Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Highlights of 2012 - Australian Science http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/#comment-16195 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:57:10 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=5210#comment-16195 […] Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia […]

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By: Best of Australian Science: November 2012 http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/#comment-15455 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:41:23 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=5210#comment-15455 […] Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia by Lauren Fuge “One hears a sound but recollects a hue, invisible the hands that touch your heartstrings,

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By: Best of Australian Science: November 2012 | Australian Science http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/#comment-15024 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:02:13 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=5210#comment-15024 […] Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia by Lauren Fuge “One hears a sound but recollects a hue, invisible the hands that touch your heartstrings,

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By: Karen Carvalho http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/#comment-14830 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:46:03 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=5210#comment-14830 As a kid I thought everyone experienced the world as I did: sounds and the feeling of touch on my skin had color, words had taste… I grew older but some of these remained, the strongest being touch-color.

I was in shock many years ago when I read an article on Scientific American about synaesthesia and immediately identified my “condition”: I was one of them!

It is nice to know my brain is wired like this and it drove me even more to my field of work and passion, neuroscience. I hope I can step inside of this subject and help uncover what’s behind this beautiful and amazing machine called brain.

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By: Howard Ellison http://australianscience.com.au/history/tasting-colours-and-seeing-sound-synaesthesia/#comment-14244 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:51:52 +0000 http://www.australianscience.com.au/?p=5210#comment-14244 Oh that we could have had living science such as this at school! I’m sure more pupils would have switched on, instead of yawning through the abstractions on the blackboard.
I do recall synaesthesia as a seven year old: certain shapes would instantly trigger a word in my head. A useful starting point for discussion of perception/association etc – but there was just nobody to ask, no slot in the curriculum – and alas no Google. Now the capacity has evaporated and, who knows, it might have been a foundation for poetry.
As for ‘thinking skills’ for young people… they took another 50 years to appear here in UK, while French schools were well ahead. Here’s to Lauren and all people who have an enquiring passion for science, and for communicating it.

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