Sensory Blending On Synaesthesia and related phenomena

by Deroy, Ophelia

• ISBN13: 9780191767609
• ISBN10: 0191767603
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-04-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ophelia Deroy, University of London

Ophelia Deroy is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Senses and the co-director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London. She specialises in philosophy of mind and cognitive neurosciences, and has widely published on issues related to multisensory perception, sensory deficits, and synaesthesia, both in philosophical and scientific journals. She is an active promoter and a leading advocate of stronger connections between philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind. Her work is frequently broadcast in national and international newspapers, and she is regularly consulted by institutions and the media regarding the relevance of philosophy for scientific debates.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Ophelia Deroy
Part 1. Defining and measuring synaesthesia
1. Synaesthesia, then and now, Lawrence E. Marks
2. Synesthesia vs. crossmodal illusions, Casey O'Callaghan
3. Synesthetic perception as continuous with ordinary perception, or: We're all synesthetes now, Jonathan Cohen
4. Reporting color experience in grapheme-color synesthesia: on the relation between color appearance, categories, and terms, Yasmina Jraissati
Part 2. Challenges raised by synaesthesia
5. Synesthesia and consciousness: exploring the connections, Myrto Myrtopoulos & Tony Ro
6. Synesthetic binding and the reactivation model of memory, Berit Brogaard
7. Merleau-Ponty and the problem of synaesthesia, Andre J. Abath
8. When is Synaesthesia Perception?, Mohan Mathen
9. Can synaesthesia present the world as it really is?, Michael Sollberger
Part 3. Boundaries of synaesthesia: Unconscious, acquired and social varieties of sensory unions
10. Questioning the continuity claim: what difference does consciousness make?, Ophelia Deroy & Charles Spence
11. The induction of synaesthesia in non-synaesthetes, Devin Blair Terhune, David P. Luke, & Roi Cohen Kadosh
12. Patrolling the boundaries of synaesthesia: a critical appraisal of transient and artificially-induced forms of synaesthetic experiences, Malika Auvray and Mirko Farina
13. Mirror touch synaesthesia: intersubjective or intermodal fusion?, Frederique de Vignemont
14. Personification, synaesthesia and social cognition, Noam Sagiv, Monika Sobczak-Edmans, & Adrian L. Williams