Talk:Synesthesia

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1 Archive1 here
2 Archive 2 here
3 Wikipedians with Synaesthesia
4 Metaphors
5 1 in 23 or 1 in 2000 ?
6 CFR of interest

[edit] Archive1 here

Talk:Synesthesia/Archive 1. This archive is grouped by topic, and includes discussions on the following topics:

Am I a Synaesthete?
An old discussion on External links (although this is an issue that might bear revisiting)
Reading as synesthesia
Synaesthesia and drugs
Fitzgerald Reference
Alphabet books as source of letter colours (another topic that might bear revisiting)
Fingernails on a chalkboard
"Only We Matter" sentence
Confused
Article in need of rewriting

This archive was created by Edhubbard 20:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Added

Confused
Synaesthesia in art

to the archive by Edhubbard 20:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archive 2 here

Talk:Synesthesia/Archive 2. This archive is grouped by topic, and includes discussions on the following topics:

Previous discussion of archiving the talk page
Discussion of Associated Cognitive Traits section
Discussion of Possible Neural Basis section
"More specific please"
Clinical description section
Bouba/kiki
Spelling
Technobabble
Synaestheticwiki image
Reorg: Moved kiki/bouba
Spelling! We need consistency...
Commenting on Personification Synaesthesia
A modest request
Creation of a category tag
"Impressive"
Lexical → gustatory
Music → color synesthesia
Grapheme → color synesthesia
Revert
Spatial-sequence synesthesia

I have double checked and the majority of these discussions come from July - October 2006, when we were making lots of edits to the page. Nothing I have archived is from 2007, so at the conversations on those topics have been dead for at least three months. Edhubbard 13:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedians with Synaesthesia

If you're a synaesthete and want to state it on your userpage, there is now a handy userbox for you to do so!

Code

Result

SYN

This user is a synaesthete.

Use it wilfully. Felicity Knife 23:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The box looks all wrong. - Xvall

Damn, those colors smell so good from here I can almost taste them. (;--Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 17:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Metaphors

The article contains the statement, "While cross-sensory metaphors are sometimes described as 'synesthetic'..." and I'm not sure I understand. Maybe an example of a cross-sensory metaphor would clarify things? Thanks, --Grant M 23:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1 in 23 or 1 in 2000 ?

This web page: [1] referenced by the article states that Simon Baron-Cohen (University of Cambridge) found the number of synaesthetes to be 1 in 2,000 not the 1 in 23 this article states. Given the apparent rarity of the condition I am inclined to believe the 2000 figure. — Nicholas (reply) @ 23:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

If you read further into the article, you will clearly see this issue addressed. The Baron-Cohen et al. (1996) estimate depended on self-reported samples. In short, B-C and colleagues placed an advert in the newspaper asking for subjects who had music-color synesthesia to respond. They then counted up the number of respondants, divided by the circulation of the paper to give a minimum estimate of 1 in 2000, but assumes that all who did not respond were not synesthetes. In a more recent study (Simner et al., 2006), the first to actually randomly sample a population, the results yielded an estimate of 1 in 23, across all forms of synesthesia. Note that this includes many forms of synesthesia, such as grapheme-color synesthesia not included in Baron-Cohen et al.'s advert. The Simner et al. study also yielded an estimate of 1 in 100 for grapheme color synesthesia, which is slightly higher than that suggested by Ramachandran and Hubbard (1 in 200) in 2001, but which was also substantially higher than that suggested by Baron-Cohen et al. Synesthesia is an active area of research, and the estimates published in 1996 have been superceded in 2006, based on improved methodologies, and increased awareness of the various forms of synesthesia. Edhubbard 19:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)