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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, from the ancient Greek σύν [syn], "together", and αἴσθησις [aisthēsis], "sensation") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.[1][2][3][4] People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.
Difficulties have been recognized in adequately defining synesthesia:[5][6] many different phenomena have been included in the term synesthesia ("union of the senses"), and in many cases the terminology seems to be inaccurate. A more accurate term may be ideasthesia.
In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored.[7][8] In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise or counterclockwise).[9][10]
Only a fraction of types of synesthesia have been evaluated by scientific research.[11] Awareness of synesthetic perceptions varies from person to person.[12]
Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was largely abandoned by scientific research in the mid-20th century.[13] Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, and functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation.[8] Many find that synesthesia aids the creative process.[citation needed] Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent appeal, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike.
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"Kathrine Mansfield once said that it took "terrific hard gardening" to produce inspiration, but I think she meant something more willful than Picasso's walks in the forests of Fontainebleau, where he got an overwhelming "indigestion of greenness," which he felt driven to empty onto a canvas."- 293
My objective with this piece was to create a synesthesiaic experience. I chose to make the walls white to first remove unwanted colors from the environment. The participant is flooded with green, just as Picasso was. I used flowers and 'china rain' oil to create strong smells within the installation. The entering through he paper portal and the feel of the paper chair are supposed to be smooth unrecognizable feelings that can be associated with other things. The instructions tell the participant to eat a leaf off the herbs on the table. This is another feel and the addition of taste. Finally white noise was created by the fan next to the participant. With their eyes closed, the participant was supposed to be flooded with sensations and hopefully would make sensory associations in their minds.
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