Are taste-shape correspondences a kind of affect-related synaesthetic correspondences?
Author: Carlos Velasco
Experimental psychologist.
The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities by Prof. Lawrence Marks
Very recommended (classic and still relevant) book on the human senses. And a poem of Charles Baudelaire: Correspondences Nature's a temple where each living column, At times, gives forth vague words. There Man advances Through forest-groves of symbols, strange and solemn, Who follow him with their familiar glances. As long-drawn echoes mingle and transfuse Till… Continue reading The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities by Prof. Lawrence Marks
Sensus communis
"There must be [a] simple type of perceptual development, the register of concurrent variation from different organs... Them, that is, the systems are equivalent." - J. J. Gibson
“It is not true…
"It is not true that “the laboratory can never be like life.” The laboratory must be like life!" - J.J. Gibson Taken from Peelen, M. V., & Kastner, S. (in press). Attention in the real world: toward understanding its neural basis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Smelling sounds
There is, as it were, an octave of odours like an octave in music; certain odours coincide, like the keys of an instrument. - G. W. Septimus Piesse The Art of Perfumery
Synaesthesia – A film by Jonathan Fowler
How would you portray synaesthesia?
Experience
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you… Continue reading Experience
Carlos Velasco 