An exploratory study of syncretic experience: eidetics, synaesthesia and absorption.

J. Glicksohn, O. Salinger, A. Roychman

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Abstract

Synaesthesia and eidetic imagery are both syncretic experiences entailing a dedifferentiation of perceptual qualities. In this paper the correlation between synaesthesia and eidetic imagery is explored. Ten subjects selected for possible eidetic and/or synaesthetic ability were tested in a battery of tasks that tap structural and typographic eidetic imagery, and colour-hearing and colour-mood synaesthesia. It was found that both structural and typographic eidetic imagery were correlated with measures of synaesthesia, indicating a relationship between the two phenomena.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)637-642
Number of pages6
JournalPerception
Volume21
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1992
Externally publishedYes

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