What is it about?
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.
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Why is it important?
See also my chapter: Glicksohn, J. (2011). Synesthesia. In M. A. Runco & S. R. Prizker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of creativity (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 403-408). San Diego: Academic Press.
Perspectives
Another BA seminar paper, under my supervision, which looked at the relationship between synaesthesia and eideticism in a select sample of participants. This is the first paper in which I presented my affiliation with Heinz Werner's theoretical framework. I have returned to this topic over the years, each time with increasing depth of analysis.
Professor Joseph Glicksohn
Bar-Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: An Exploratory Study of Syncretic Experience: Eidetics, Synaesthesia and Absorption, Perception, October 1992, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1068/p210637.
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