{"id":123,"date":"2011-04-20T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-04-20T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T23:14:06","slug":"on-numbers-and-synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agustinjimenez.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/on-numbers-and-synesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"On numbers and synesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Synesthesia is a phenomenon that has always fascinated me since I studied it in university. As academics could define it, synesthesia it\u2019s an altered perception some people face instead of the proper sensations they should be feeling.<\/p>\n

It can run from feeling tingling rather than slight pain in certain parts of your body to see words in colors or hear sounds as you read a text. The truth is that although big players scientists in psychology and medicine have been involved investigating this particular super powers it remains yet as a one of the unconquered jungles of the mind\u2019s science.<\/p>\n

Some time ago, I was wondering if that plasticity that let our intellect play in fascinating scenarios could be brought into play as a simulator of synesthetes\u2019s abilities. Two basic approaches are held into this phenomenon. First one deals with the possibility of an excess of links between brain parts that should not be related. The second one, a little bit more disturbing, deals with the idea that synesthetes suffer that certain signal feedbacks that should be inhibited are not.<\/p>\n

This second premise let me dream about the chance that all of us who doesn\u2019t have the right momentum to experience that phenomena could make an effort trying to unblock that pathways.<\/p>\n

Human ability to play, think and transmute ideas is huge (even in our memories as we all know). That\u2019s why this exercise I proposed some time ago on my blog was merely a game. It should be treated as an non scientific try out to evaluate if there is some ability in us to easily experience sinesthesia on that familiar symbols we all call numbers.<\/p>\n

Around fifty people answered an online test<\/a> in which every number from zero to nine was asked to be defined as a color from a closed list. \u201cNone of them\u201d was also proposed as a valid answer, despite this, it wasn\u2019t the most marked response.<\/p>\n

The results of this informal experiment are presented here (PDF – 320KB)<\/a>. Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

[Spanish] PD: Cre\u00e9\u00a0el test hace algo m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o<\/a> y escrib\u00ed este art\u00edculo en Julio de 2010. Lo publico diez meses m\u00e1s tarde, por lo que es de esperar que para seguir la progresi\u00f3n con cualquier paso adicional debo esperar al menos treinta meses m\u00e1s. Mil gracias a D\u00e1maris<\/a> por participar con la visualizaci\u00f3n de los datos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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