![]() Having spacial-sequence synesthesia may give way to a better built-in memory, because it lends itself to mnemonic reference. My point of view in this spacial representation is from my birthday on June 30th. The more significant months (based on my childhood perspective notably Christmas and my birthday) are bigger than the others. This automatic visualization allows me to reach out and "touch time". When I think of the days of the week or the months of the year, I can see them defined spatially in my mind's eye. So there is some logical foundation.īorderline types of synesthesia include spacial-sequence synesthesia. Though the colors invoked by each tone are different between synesthetes, nearly all agree that low tones are darker and higher notes are lighter. For instance, middle C on a piano is red. Then there's chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia, quite probably most common among musicians, where sounds evoke an experience of color. For example, A is yellow, B is red, C is green. One of the most common types is grapheme-color synesthesia - where people associate specific colors with different letters of the alphabet. These dramatic types of synesthesia affect around 4% of the population. These, too, are entirely involuntary - and synesthetes may assume them to be normal because they've had these cross-associations their whole lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a lot more powerful - and surprising - types of synesthestic reactions. This experiment, designed by Wolfgang Kohler, is now known as the Booba-Kiki effect. If you agree with the majority, then you too have a mild sense of synesthesia, where your sense of sounds and shapes are cross-activated. Can you identify which of these shapes is called Booba and which is called Kiki? Or is it impossible to tell?Īn overwhelming 98% of people name the curvy figure Booba (rounded edges logically correlate to the soft 'b' and 'o' sounds) and the pointed figure Kiki (sharp edges translated to the hard 'k' sound). Do you have a mild form of synesthesia? Take this synesthesia test now. ![]()
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