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Synesthetic Perception as Continuous With Ordinary Perception,
or: We're All Synesthetes Now| old_uid | 10253 |
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| title | Synesthetic Perception as Continuous With Ordinary Perception,
or: We're All Synesthetes Now |
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| start_date | 2011/10/11 |
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| schedule | 12h-13h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | How should we conceive of the relation between synesthetic
and normal perception? Well, that depends a lot on how we think about
normal perception. I'll present two models for thinking about normal
perception --- a *dedicated feature extraction* view that makes
synesthesia look exceptional/pathological, and an *integrative* view
that makes synesthesia look continuous with (an enhancement of) normal
perceptual capacities. Then I'll argue that there is abundant
evidence, drawn from many different levels of perceptual organization,
for endorsing the integrative view of normal perception. Moreover,
I'll show that the integrative view correctly predicts the otherwise
unexpected result that synesthetes perform better than non-synesthetes
in certain perceptual tasks that don't implicate synesthetic
perception. The upshot, I'll suggest, is that synesthetic perception
is usefully viewed as much closer to non-synesthetic perception ( a
fortiori, less clearly pathological) than standard views allow. |
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| responsibles | Sackur |
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