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Types of Synaesthesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Lorna Simpson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Aberdeen University
Peter McKellar
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Aberdeen University

Extract

Synaesthesia is defined by Vernon (1937) as a phenomenon in which “a stimulus presented in one mode seems to call up imagery of another mode as readily as that of its own”. The discovery of synaesthesia has sometimes been wrongly attributed to Galton. Galton (1883) certainly describes instances, but reports on earlier descriptions, for example those published in 1881 by Bleuler and Lehmann.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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