Isilla de las Heras's List: SINESTESIA / SYNESTHESIA

La sinestesia usualmente afecta a 1 de cada 23 personas y se  encuentra más comúnmente en mujeres y zurdos. Además, estas personas  experimentan normalmente una excelente memoria y a menudo problemas con los  cálculos y/o la orientación.

Un 95-98% de la gente le asigna el nombre Kiki a la figura  angular naranja y Booba a la figura redondeada violeta. La  explicación consiste en que la figura violeta es llamada Booba porque  los labios forman una figura redondeada para producir el sonido. Al contrario  que con la otra figura kiki.

Sean A. Day 

Barbara Ryan is an artist, writer and perfumier with  polymodal synaesthesia.

“I believe synaesthesia is something that has always  influenced my work or at least my particular sense of aesthetics. Predominantly  subconsciously, yet at certain times I have employed it quite deliberately. The  interesting aspect for me is the way it binds everything together – initially  what seems somewhat random can later be traced to a ‘synaesthesic source’ which,  far from being arbitrary, has shown to display a ‘system’ or ‘code’. To  completely crack the code would, however, sanitise and order a fluid and  instinctive noetisiscm – and thus destroy both the process and outcome. I am  particularly interested in the area of ‘synaesthesic translation’ – translating  material, whether visual, gestural, auditory or olfactory, from one discipline  to another. A form of alchemy and transmutation, it is only the study of  synaesthesia which is relatively new and I suspect the phenomenon of  ‘synaesthesia’ will, at some point, be revealed in scientific terms at least, to  be a sub-system to an all encompassing form of brain function.”