COGNITIVE SCIENCE CENTRE


SYNAESTHESIA AWARENESS DESK

     Synaesthesia means perceive something together or joined/mixed sensation. In their regular life, they identify the objects, people, events, incidents or any conversation with colors, numbers, symbols, shapes, smell etc., Their specific character is to memorize easily events without errors compare with normal people. They themselves, they are not aware of synaesthesia person. They are sociable but feel alone. Most of the synaesthesia people are in the children population than other categories of population.
Physical appearance : Synaesthesia people are normal like normal people
Psychological perspective: They have good ability in identifying, memorizing the things easily. In addition to that, certain difficulties have also been observed in their mental process.
Strengths: They might have above average and superior intelligence, good memory, and good learning ability. The good quality of the people is to enhance efficiency levels through learning experiences. High efficiency in reading, writing, mathematical calculations etc.,
Drawbacks: Difficulties in attention level, memorizing process, thinking process, thought-provoking process, Left and Right confusion. They might have difficulty in reading, writing and identification of numbers.
Behaviour: They lead normal behavior. Sometimes, lead unexpressed and unwanted /abnormal behavior in accordance with the situation.
Idenification process: Synaesthesia people might perceive the objects through the colours, shapes, smell, sounds, touch, etc., Example: some people always think of certain things (Eg. Numbers, as having colour-events, Eg. 5 is a colorful event like greenish fields) ( Eg. 6 is bossy, Letter A is blue).


     Normal people                synaesthesia people
The diagram contains 5s and 2s. The synaesthesia people instantly grouped 2s and easily identify the triangle shape formed by 2s.

               
          Normal people                                                            synaesthesia people
The diagram contains Fs, Ps and Hs. The synaesthesia people instantly grouped Hs and easily identifies the triangle shape formed by Hs.

However, synaesthesia is a neurological rarity in which two or more senses are connected. For example music might be seen in colours and patterns, taste may be seen in shape and letters may have textures etc.,

There are various psychometric tests/apparatus to identify the synaesthesia characteristics and prevent the difficulties and promote the quality intellectual behaviuor in our Synaesthesia Cell, COGNITIVE SCIENCE CENTRE, LakiReddy Bali Reddy College Engineering, Mylavaram-521230, Krishna district, Andhrapradesh. India. For further information, visit to our College website:www.lbrce.ac.in . Contact our e-mails: [email protected], and [email protected], Mobile: 9493800063.

Mrs.K.VIYAYASREE, SCIENTIST, COGNITIVE SCIENCE CENTER.