Synesthesia

Synesthesia (American English) anaa synaesthesia (British English) be a perceptual phenomenon insyd wich stimulation of one sensory anaa cognitive pathway lead to involuntary experiences insyd a second sensory anaa cognitive pathway.  People plus synesthesia fi experience colors wen dem dey listen to music, see shapes wen dem dey smell certain scents, anaa perceive tastes wen dem dey look at words. People wey report a lifelong history of such experiences be known as synesthetes.

Awareness of synesthetic perceptions dey vary from person to person plus de perception of synesthesia dey differ base on an individual ein unique life experiences den de specific type of synesthesia wey dem get. Insyd one common form of synesthesia, dem know as grapheme–color synesthesia anaa color–graphemic synesthesia, letters anaa numbers be perceived as inherently colored. Insyd spatial-sequence, anaa number form synesthesia, numbers, months of de year, anaa days of de week elicit precise locations insyd space (e.g., 1980 fi be "farther away" dan 1990), anaa fi appear as a three-dimensional map (clockwise anaa counterclockwise). Synesthetic associations fi occur insyd any combination den any number of senses anaa cognitive pathways.

Dem know little about how synesthesia dey develop. Na dem suggest say synesthesia dey develop during kiddie time wen na kiddies be intensively engage plus abstract concepts for de first time. Dis hypothesis—dem refer to am as semantic vacuum hypothesis—fi explain why de most common forms of synesthesia be grapheme–color, spatial sequence, den number form. Dese be usually de first abstract concepts wey educational systems require kiddies make dem learn.

Na dem attribute de earliest recorded case of synesthesia is attribute to de Oxford University academic den philosopher John Locke, wey, insyd 1690, he make a report about a blind man wey na he say he experience de color scarlet wen he hear de sound of a trumpet.Ward, Ossian (10 June 2006). The man who heard his paint box hiss. The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 December 2018. However, der be disagreement as to whether na Locke describe an actual instance of synesthesia anaa na he dey use a metaphor. De first medical account cam from German physician Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs insyd 1812. De term be from Ancient Greek   'togeda' den   'sensation'.

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